jQuery and “Organized Code”

Question

I\'ve been struggling lately with understanding the best way to organize jQuery code. I asked another question earlier and I don\'t think I was specific enough (found in thi

Answer 1

In my opinion the method described by BaileyP is what I use to start off with then I normally abstract everything into more re-usable chunks, especially when some functionality expands to the point where it's easier to abstract it into a plugin then have it specific to one site.

As long as you keep the large blocks of code in a seperate file and coded nicely you can then end up with some really clean syntax.

// Page specific code
jQuery(function() {
    for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
         $("").bindWithServer("#inputContainer");
    }
});

// Nicely abstracted code
jQuery.fn.bindWithServer = function(container) {
     this.change(function() {
             jQuery.ajax({
                 url: 'http://example.com/',
                 success: function() { jQuery(container).unbindChildren(); }
             });
     });
}
jQuery.fn.unbindChildren = function() {
    this.children().each(function() {
        jQuery(this).unbind().change(function() {});
    });
}