Best 3 jQuery Books For Web Designers & Developers

Posted by ThinkFlick

December 16, 2008

jQuery - Yeah the one of the best and fastest javascript client libraries these days. Although prototype, yahoo UI and motools are also good but jQuery is fastest to load and easiest to learn as compared to other JS libraries.

Beauty of jQuery is its simplicity. We can create complex javascripts in minimal length of code. Recently i am building a very rich user interface application that I know my clients will love to use it. Its front end is purly built in CSS and jQuery. I have learnt a lot from different jQuery books, jQuery documentation site and livejQuery. Here is a list of jQuery books I have compiled and read.

jQuery in Action

jQuery in Action have material of about 300 pages which will guide you from basics of jQuery to advance level. You can learn how to build rich interface web applications with jQuery with its short but informative lessions about jQuery.Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

Buy it From Amazon.com
Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

Another great book about jQuery. This book covers mainly about design patterns of jQuery. It can guide you from basics functions to advance level of design patterns.

If you are a programmer, this book will help you to learn ajax, basic form submission, and other advance level of DOM scripting including even handling and creating DOM elements with jQuery.

If you are a designer, this will help you to understand how to work with CSS and design elements with jQuery and make a perfect touch to your web templates by using jQuery. After reading this book i was able to learn how to make my own tabbed based interfaces, sliding menus and nice looking web elements. Buy this book from amazon.com
Complete jQuery Refference Guide

If you want to learn jQuery from A to Z in refference , then this book will help you. It have explaination of nearly every jQuery function. It also explains how to make your own jQuery plugins.
It gives you a quick look into jQuery library, gives you definition of all jQuery functions and their example usage.

The best thing i like about this book is that it explains in a beautiful way how to build you own jQuery plugins. This was great for me. Buy it from Amazon.com