jQuery San Francisco 2012: Sessions Recap and Updates

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jQuery San Francisco 2012

Sessions

State of jQuery

Releases will slow down

Only 1.8 in mid-2012.

Grunt-based builds

Supports more granular build systems.

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md

The problem is finding the correct plugin then defining the dependencies.

Closure Compiler

A number of pitfalls when working with the compiler. Work is in progress with the Closure team.

jQuery 2.0 (Early 2013)

Same API but no support for IE8 or less.

Sizzle performance in 1.8

Exterminating Common jQuery Bugs

Debugging JavaScript

Grunt

Initialization

grunt init:gruntfile

jquery=1.4 parameter

comparesize:files

Run tests from python -m HTTPSimpleServer

Look at jquery ui cdn push as example

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

Last Updated: 2025-07-30 13:45:27

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