OO JQuery and classes

Question

I\'m working on a site and using JQuery for essentially the first time. I\'ve mostly used MooTools for previous projects, and I have a few widget classes I\'ve written usin

Answer 1

You can always also use moo4q - http://moo4q.com/ . It adds MooTools class support to jQuery.

Answer 2

I've just finished a very first release of my mini project: https://github.com/op1ekun/plOOgins. It's all about writing OOP code to be used as Jquery plugins. It's not rocket science just a little something that we wanted to use at my workplace. Maybe it will help You a bit. Good luck!

Answer 3

The question is... Why are you moving away from MooTools is it fits your needs? Seems to me like MooTools was working fine, and there is nothing jQuery does that MooTools can't do. (The opposite isn't true).

Unfortunately, jQuery is not built to support classical OOP as MooTools is so you will need to write your Classes as jQuery plugins.

Answer 4

Plugins sometimes do the trick.

Of course, you could use just enough of mootools to get it's class/inheritance model. With the implementation of document.id "compatibility mode" in 1.2.3 you can have your cake and eat it too (I think--haven't done it myself.)

Answer 5

You might find this approach useful to the task at stake: building an object-oriented jquery plugin.

And this article on Ajaxian "a real OO class system with jquery".

Answer 6

I wrote an article some time ago about jQuery object oriented plugins, hope it will be helpful

http://ajax911.com/jquery-object-oriented-plugins/