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Thursday, October 22, 2009

jQuery for Everyone: The SharePoint Game Changer

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I can’t tell you the number of people who have come up to me at SharePoint Conference 2009 to talk about Paul Grenier’s jQuery for Everyone Series. That set of articles really opened the doors of jQuery for a lot of people. I’m including the series as a set of links below for those who haven’t had a chance to look at it.

jQuery for Everyone is a game changer.

Thank you Paul. Your contributions to the SharePoint community have been tremendous and I just wish you were here to receive the personal praise you deserve.

Mark

View all entries in this series: PaulGrenier-JQuery for Everyone»

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8 Responses to “jQuery for Everyone: The SharePoint Game Changer”

Dean says:

October 22, 2009 at 9:22 am

Any idea what will happen to pages that have calls to Jquery when we upgrade to the next version of SharePoint?

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Will Lawrence says:

October 22, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Great question Dean. One answer is to help the jPoint open source project improve their API so that jQuery solutions can be jPoint-ized (which will basically involve cutting and pasting the code into a jPart template) so that the solution will work seamlessly from 2007 to 2010.

But we, as a community, have a lot of work to do. The jPoint project has the vision to make everyone’s lives easier by making it easier to develop, deploy, and upgrade javascript solutions on Sharepoint. We are looking for devs to help overload our functions to allow jPoint to leverage the optimized functions in the SharePoint Javascript Client Object Model (ie. bulk load queries). Please check out the jPoint project on Codeplex – http://jPoint.codeplex.com.

@Willhlaw

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Christophe says:

October 27, 2009 at 8:50 am

Surprisingly, I have seen no mention of jQuery in SPC09 related articles…or did I miss something?

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- EndUserSharePoint says:
  
  October 27, 2009 at 9:24 am
  
  Christophe,
  
  I actually had a discussion with Jeremy Thake (@jthake) last night on that. Yes, jQuery is included as part of 2010, however “No one’s talking!”. I can’t find documentation or discussion on it. Probably have to wait for the beta rollout in November.
  
  Mark
  
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Will Lawrence says:

November 8, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Mark,

I am not so sure that jQuery is included as part of SharePoint 2010. Yes, it is integrated into Visual Studio 2010 in so far as intellisense and jQuery is provided in a local folder post install. However, in all the demos I saw at SPC09, jQuery had been downloaded to a SharePoint library or folder and referenced via traditional means (i.e. script tag hack or document.write method, or as HTML ).

After a Microsoft Presentation on SharePoint Mashups with Bing Maps, I asked the question on what is the recommended method to include jQuery on SharePoint pages and the answer was there is no best method. I caught up with Mike Amerlan later at the conference and he did say that deploying jQuery and script solutions via WSP is the best way to go.

I still think the best way to go for now is to use Jan Tielen’s SmartTools.jQuery (server side install which adds jQuery to all pages in a site collection) or his new jQueryLoader (client side install which modifies the master page to include jQuery on all site pages).

The community still needs a better solution. We need a way to:

- Push the script to pages that we want.
- Allow Script on Demand or lazy loading (it’s a waste of resources to load jQuery and other libraries on a page that don’t need it).

I am going to have the jPoint community look into implementing this, possibly by using an Aspect Oriented Programming design.

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- EndUserSharePoint says:
  
  November 8, 2009 at 9:18 pm
  
  Will – I will respond to this in an article on the site this Monday, November 9. — Mark
  
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