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Ramez Ashraf
Ramez Ashraf

Reputation: 891

Partial JQuery library, tailored for each project requirement?

The JQuery let's you do all that wonderful stuff, while taking care of browser difference and maintaining a smooth language.

But what if I don't need all of this .. Maybe all what I need is just the ajax call (that what most of really want anyway) and I don't want to pay the cost 90+K library just for that feature alone "or with a couple of other features"

Is there a way to "extract" the options you mainly need from JQuery?! Something similar to what modernizer are doing? See here: http://modernizr.com/download/

Don't get me wrong here, I'm still a "lazy dev" who wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel & care about different browsers compatibility etc. .. so I still want to use a library .. but just tailored for my needs. RobG pointed out the existence of MyLibrary which have a builder to deliver what I "only" need. Checking it out & it looks very cool. will certainly try it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 110

Answers (3)

Ramez Ashraf
Ramez Ashraf

Reputation: 891

This is can be the answer to the question regarding how to extract jquery needed part(s)

http://projects.jga.me/jquery-builder/

it divides the library (v1.10.2) to

ajax, css, deprecated($.uaMatch, $.browser, $.sub), dimensions , effects , event-alias , offset & wrap.

But for the purpose of the question, which is not paying that much valuable kilobytes over the precious network... it turn out that, using this builder, cutting everything only reduce the filesize by only 30% ...

so :) practical solution (till the moment) remains the same 1- not using jquery (use your or another library) or 2- accept the price of those 90k

Upvotes: 0

Brett Weber
Brett Weber

Reputation: 1907

For those developers who aren't "lazy dev"s, getting examples of what you are trying to do from the source of any open source libraries and forming your own modules is a great way to go.

There are resources out there to get you to just snippets you need such as Micro.js and james padolsey's jquery source viewer.

Once you have build a nice set of modules and established what dependencies you have internally, you can create min files specific to a page or portion of a project and cutting out all of the extra weight you don't need

Upvotes: 1

Bic
Bic

Reputation: 3134

You can get an unminified copy of the jQuery source and remove the methods you don't need. Just be careful with removing methods that AJAX might have dependencies on.

Upvotes: 1

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