Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what wa... by huyegn on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @01:43PM (#895186)

wow, awesome UI, I looked at source but saw that you minified most of your js. How did you do that sliding panel nav? Do any jquery plugins that you recommend?

I do a lot of jQuery as well but have been frustrated lately by how it's simplicity sometimes also makes it hard to maintain. For example as your app grows, you'll inevitably run into problems where your selectors no longer work because of refactoring and etc... Have you faced the same challenges? If not, what do you do to keep down the complexity?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what wa... by alexkearns on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:13PM (#895262)

I minified JS for performance reasons, rather than to obscure the code. Indeed, you can find a large chunk of the code at http://usejquery.com/sites/315

I tend to avoid jQuery plugins because I like doing as much of the code as possible, so I am afraid I can't recommend any plugins. I largely use jQuery as a selector engine (at which it is brilliant), for event binding and for basic animations.

In terms of refactoring messing up your javascript, I have not suffered major problems with that but I can imagine it happening often on big projects involving lots of people.

Thanks for your interest and good luck with your projects.

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