jQuery Pocket Reference: Read Less, Learn More

The book is like new. The book has just thr right amount of info so you can lookup something quickly

This jQuery Pocket Reference covers as much API material as a 400 page book! It's index is great! It explains more than just the general or most common aspects of jQuery methods, events, and properties. Fantastic first book to learn jQuery very well and very quickly. I give it 4.5 stars.

This review pertains to the Kindle Edition.First, had Amazon or the publisher indicated that this was included as a chapter in Flanagan's recently published JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages, I wouldn't have bought it--but I downloaded both at the same time and didn't find out until a couple days later. That's why I gave the book a 4-start rating rather than 5. If you are a DTB user then it makes sense to have both because you're unlikely to want to carry around an 1100 page volume as a quick reference, but for a Kindle user with full text search available buying this is a waste of money if you are going to buy the other. That, in fact is my recommendation: buy the larger book and park it on your development workstation.That said, this is a fine piece of work. Like many developers, I started using a JavaScript library for a particular project and settled on jQuery because it provided the features I needed at the time. I came to understand its value and used in increasingly, but always with a familiarity constrained by the requirements of my initial use. My skills grew as I used it, but slowly.So, I really welcomed and valued the first 2/3 (or so) of Flanagan's book (or chapter), which is a narrative description of the library's features, with examples and detailed explanations of what's going on behind the scenes. Writing that sort of narrative about a programming language is hard, and Flanagan's only peer for that, in my opinion, is Friedl of Mastering Regular Expressions (also an O'Reilly book), and he succeeded here well enough that a person can actually read the whole thing with considerable understanding, thereby gaining a better overview of the library than can be had by searching out features when we bump up against something we don't know how to do. The last 1/3 of the book is a reference section: concise, simple, and well-organized, just what you need when you forget a particular syntax.The book was carefully adapted to electronic viewing. Code is displayed in a fixed space font to differentiate it from the surrounding text, but the font has the same height and color as the text and so is easy to read. Sidebars are presented with a slightly smaller, but still easily readable font, as a distinct block of text embedded with the main text. This, and the larger work from which it was extracted, are the best examples of technical books adapted to e-readers I have seen, so O'Reilly deserves considerable credit for their success in this format.The book was written for jQuery version 1.4 and the current version is 1.6.1 (as of today), and quite a bit has been added to jQuery. I knew that before I bought the book and decided the reference retained enough value to be worthwhile even though the version had been superseded. You should bear that in mind, though.

I go for long periods without writing javascript/jquery (mostly working on database/backend development), so I get rusty. I find this little "pocket reference" really fits the bill to help me get my mind back into jQuery tactics and syntax.I was quite pleasantly surprised to find so much information so well organized in such a small format (little space is wasted on unnecessary white space). The clarity lives up to the the high reputation that Flanagan has established in his comprehensive javascript volumes.Thanks: It's great to have this jewel to pack with me when on the road (as well as on desktop).

I picked this up not bothering to check the version of jQuery it covers. *facepalm*The book covers 1.4.x and we are currently at 1.8.2. Although discouraged at first, this book has actually become my go to book for an in-the-moment jQuery reference when working with methods/functions I am not too familiar with - like $.getJSON(), or $.each(). I regularly consult the jQuery website as well, to cross check with the book, but so far it has been very helpful, and spot-on.

Very terse, but handy as a desk ref, although I typically have to go online for clarification. OTOH, Flanagan's big treatise on Javascript is very good.

I was a big fan of Flanagan's definitive javascript book. While that was a thick tome it gave me an excellent grounding in the intricacies of javascript. While initially dissappointed that David had only released a pocket reference for JQuery I am now convinced that not much more is needed.Compared to Javascript, JQuery is so much simpler and less verbose. The size of David's Javscript and Jquery references simply reflect these facts.I use JQuery regularly and this is the book I turn to, sometimes even before I google the internet. This book is a good investment.

First of all, DO NOT buy this book if you're buying "JavaScript: the Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages..." as the jQuery Pocket Reference is merely one of the chapters (complete, unabridged) repackaged from the 'Definitive Guide' book, by the same author (although MUCH lighter, and therefore more portable). My mistake. Notwithstanding, Flanagan's approach to this technical material is...well...rather technical. Thorough? From my (beginner's) perspective, quite. Accessible? Well, yes, but be advised this is not a light & fluffy approach to scripting for web design, but is sufficiently comprehensive enough for me (as a beginner) to develop very complex web pages using the jQuery library. A thorough understanding of JavaScript is required to maximize what this pocket reference offers. But I'm guessing you'd know that if you know what jQuery is. The book layout is straightforward, meaning the methods Flanagan uses to explain otherwise complex concepts is attainable to the unintitiated, while the presentation facilitates speedy comprehension. Lots of samples/examples with copious line-by-line comment/documentation so one understands what, why and how each of those code lines contextually applies. BUY recommendation.

It does need more examples but hey this is a reference book and it does itS job. Helped me alot when I forgot which function to use for a specific task

no he acabado aún de leerlo, pero está bien estructurado y es una guía cómoda para consultar cuando se necesite algo en particular.

I was skeptical because it's a bit old (2011) and an excerpt from another book; but actually it's easy to read and very informative. It's the first book I'm reading about Jquery and I have very little prior knowledge of both Javascript and Jquery itself: but I can understand everything, although I had client-side programming experience with Silverlight so its concepts aren't new. Highly recommended, both as a primer and a reference; I'm even considering the purchase of its "parent" book (Javascript: the definitive reference).

Voici un produit que j'ai acheté sur recommandation et je ne suis pas déçu. Les sujets principaux et importants sont abordés, dans une syntaxe qui va droit au but, sans fioritures. Une bonne référence tant pour les débutants que pour les amateurs avertis.

In the last decade and a bit I've purchased numerous pocket books - this jQuery one is perhaps the best to date. It's sufficiently well fleshed and organised that one can use it as a good spring board into the deeper aspects of jQuery. Gladly recommended.