To be breve I’ll write some sample code and quickly describe it afterwards. So what’s a plugin. Lets make a simple logging plugin that overrides the console.log function and prevents MSIE browser to throw an error when this function misses.
The thing I’d like to achieve is something like:
$.log(‘my message’);
when I call it from a pure jQuery code.
function log( msg ) {
console.log && console.log(msg);
}
That code looks quite correct, but to make all this into a jQuery plugin will need something more.
(function(jquery) {
var log = function( msg ) {
console.log && console.log(msg);
};
jquery.log = log;
}(jQuery));
After that we can call the $.log function with success and to perform logging of everything we want into the Firebug’s console.
The simple technique used here is a JavaScript closure and simple exportation of the single function log.
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