This tutorial will add the feature of autocomplete as you type. In the form where a user can enter a reply to a thread, we want the application to automatically start fetching usernames to choose from when you type a string that begins with the @ symbol. There is a jQuery plugin built for this exact purpose called At.js. In addition to autocomplete of usernames, the plugin also offers emoji like characters such as smileys, coffee cups, and more.…
In this installment, we’ll examine a cool Laravel AJAX CRUD Tutorial. There are a few benefits to handling database interactions with ajax. We know that it helps to make page updates very quick, reduces the amount of bandwidth used, and provides for a slick user experience. We’ll make use of Laravel on the backend and jQuery on the client side to set up a fully functioning Laravel ajax crud tutorial application.…
You Might Still Need jQuery, and this is why. Web developers are a fickle crowd. Yesterday’s best practices become today’s code smells, and today’s code smells may at one point end up being best practices. Friends, we are out of control. What is it that makes us so crazy and all over the place? Why do development workflows come in and out of fashion at such a rapid pace?…
AJAX is in use all over the internet today. By using AJAX, your website can get data from remote services and communicate with your web server without a full page refresh. In recent times, AJAX has really become one of the major components of building modern web applications. It can be a little tricky to implement in native JavaScript, but by using jQuery, it does become a whole lot easier.…
One of the great things about the modern web of today is that there are a lot of fantastic animations and effects on web pages and User Interfaces. Boring static text and lame images are gone, slick and engaging experiences are in. Having these effects can greatly add to the overall navigation, and often gives the user slick visual cues as to what is the next call to action and so on.…
Now that we have covered a lot of the basics with selectors and filters in jQuery, we’re ready to jump into something that’s a bit more interactive and fun. What would this be? Well it would be jQuery Event Handling of course! When using jQuery, the thing that you will do first, and most often, is selecting and filtering elements. A very close second will be working with JavaScript Event Handlers by way of jQuery.…
As we move forward in learning bigger and better things about jQuery, we find the need to go beyond just using selectors to grab the content we want. The large number of selectors and filters available to us are a lot to learn, but once we are fluent with them, we can then start using other jQuery methods to manipulate the content in the DOM. We can create, remove, change, add, animate, or do pretty much whatever we want with that content.…
In web development and specifically with using the awesome jQuery library, traversing the information returned from a document is a very common task. jQuery makes this much easier for you with some great methods of the jQuery Object. There are a lot of ways to make your way around, but it makes sense to focus on the ones that are most used, and will be most useful to you.…