For our site, Im using a lot of jQuery – right now Im looking at 340 lines of jQuery code on top of the base library. How much is too much? I will be adding more, when do I start trying to condense the code and eventually move to OOP?
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For our site, Im using a lot of jQuery – right now Im looking at 340 lines of jQuery code on top of the base library. How much is too much? I will be adding more, when do I start trying to condense the code and eventually move to OOP?
Optimally, you should keep you script size as minimum as possible, but with today’s ‘Web 2.0’ websites, you will most probably accumulate quite a lot of JavaScript code.
The important thing is that before you deploy your website, make sure to minify and gzip your script files as to reduce the size of your script files as much as possible.
If you are really interested in optimizing and improving your website performance, I highly recommend taking a look at Steve Souders’ High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers