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How to Write Superior jQuery Plugins

• omgsean 15y ago
  When I'm writing jQuery code I like to use $varName to refer to vars which store a jQuery object, and plain old varName for everything else. This is a fairly common technique that I picked up from I think Paul Irish or Rebecca Murphey. In your case of $this and this I would generally declare var self = this rather than var $this = this. Fairly often if "this" is an HTML element I'll declare var $this = $(this). Not saying your way is wrong but I do find it helps me to keep my jQuerified and non jQuerified variables visibly separate.
  • nvitas 15y ago
    My buddy wrote the article so I can't comment on his stance but I'm with you on the var self = this; Like you I like to avoid the use of "$" character unless dealing with jQuerified variables
    • Gigablah 15y ago
      I've seen some code (mostly from Backbone.js apps) use "var that = this;" instead.
      • rduchnik 15y ago
        I like the $this just because I'm used to it from codeigniter.
• c4urself 15y ago
  I recently wrote a template for jquery plugins which uses many of the ideas in the article, it's based on the Twitter Bootstrap 2 jQuery templates: https://github.com/c4urself/jQuery-Plugin-Template/blob/master/jquery.plugin.template.js https://github.com/c4urself/jQuery-Plugin-Template/blob/mast...