Plugin design recommendations
Now that we have examined common ways to extend jQuery and jQuery UI by creating plugins, we can review and supplement what we've learned with a list of recommendations:
- Protect the dollar (
$
) alias from potential interference from other libraries by usingjQuery
instead or passing$
into an immediately invoked function expression (IIFE), so that it can be used as a local variable. - Whether extending the jQuery object with
$.myPlugin
or the jQuery prototype with$.fn.myPlugin
, add no more than one property to the$
namespace. Additional public methods and properties should be added to the plugin's namespace (for example,$.myPlugin.publicMethod
or$.fn.myPlugin.pluginProperty
). - Provide an object containing default options ...
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