Comments on: A Plugin Development Pattern

By: Jquery Samples from net « Designing

Jquery Samples from net « Designing — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:02:37 +0000

[...] A Plugin Development Pattern- This article is meant to share a useful pattern for plugin authoring. [...]

By: bird

bird — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:22:49 +0000

Great article! Thanks for posting it. And thank you for all the work you’ve contributed to the jQuery community.

By: Jason Burnett

Jason Burnett — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:57:42 +0000

I was wondering why you use the implied global variable $this during your iterations.

Shouldn’t the declaration of $this=$(this) be a variable declaration to keep it local to the each iteration…in other words, wouldn’t it be better to say: var $this=$(this); ?

I’m sure I am missing something, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the great pattern/tutorial. I’m excited to write my first plugin.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:49:35 +0000

I’m sorry if I missed something in the comments that might already address this concern, but is there a reason why you’re adding $this to the global namespace?
Shouldn’t $this = $(this);
be var $this = $(this);?

By: A Few JavaScript/jQuery Best Practices « Cory Peters

A Few JavaScript/jQuery Best Practices « Cory Peters — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:27:31 +0000

[...] and properly encapsulated within a JavaScript closure. There are plenty of guides out there on how to build a jQuery plugin so I’m not going to repeat that [...]

By: Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:52:54 +0000

That’s because debug2 is a function expression, and you didn’t declare the variable (using var), which makes it available globally.

By: david

david — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:08:20 +0000

Hmmm, ok, strange:

(function($){
        function debug() {
                alert("debug ok");
        }
        debug2 = function() {
                alert("debug2 ok");
        }
[...]

Debug function is private Debug2 isn't private.

By: david

david — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:58:53 +0000

> Our “debug” method cannot be accessed from outside of the closure
> and thus is private to our implementation.

No it’s private implementation; Debug function is available all over your code

By: 50kj

50kj — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:44:48 +0000

$(“select”,obj).bind(“click.mydownlist”, {sel_index:$(this).attr(“sel_index”)},defaults.onclick);
I have bind data in jquery plugin , but how to get it in client’s callback function?

By: Advanced jQuery Plugin Pattern 2.0 - blog.topwebdevelop.com

Advanced jQuery Plugin Pattern 2.0 - blog.topwebdevelop.com — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:46:30 +0000

[...] great read is Mike Alsup’s plugin development pattern. His tutorial is closer to what my pattern [...]