jQuery Roundup
Welcome to the jQuery Roundup 30. You can send your plugins and articles in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
I go through a lot of jQuery plugins every week. Most plugins are thrown onto a dodgy WordPress blog as a zip file (and sometimes even rar). If you’re distributing plugins, please consider the following:
- Using source control on a public site like GitHub to distribute your plugin and allow people to track updates
- Writing tests
- Giving the plugin a license (most people use GPL or MIT)
- Writing documentation
- Hosting a demo (GitHub Pages can also be used to host demo pages for free)
And then I won’t get grumpy and think your plugin looks unprofessional. Thanks!
jTweetsAnywhere
jTweetsAnywhere (MIT license) by Thomas Billenstein is a nice little Twitter library for displaying real-time updates. It can read a user’s tweets, lists, or a search.
There’s a demo page that links to several different examples.
todos.js
I noticed todos.js by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet, which uses jQuery and Backbone.js.
The code for todos.js is presented in a really cool way, with commentary on the left and code on the right. A version of the code is running here: todos.js demo.
jQuery Masonry
jQuery Masonry (MIT license) by David DeSandro is a layout plugin that can position floats in an evenly spaced grid. DeSandro has quite a collection of resources to go with the plugin, including frequently asked questions, issues, and documentation.
