Acknowledgments

We found writing this book a daunting and challenging experience, and we recognize that there’s no way we could have done it on our own. We want to take a moment and acknowledge the folks who have contributed to this work, both directly and indirectly.

First of all, we’d like to thank Daniel Ha, Jason Yan, and the team at Disqus, not only for employing us, but for building and maintaining the amazing platform from which most of the material in this book derives.

Secondly, we’d like to thank the fine folks at Manning for taking a chance on what many felt was a niche topic. Without them, this book wouldn’t exist. We especially want to thank our editor Renae Gregoire, for helping us through the writing process and holding our hands from beginning to end. We’d also like to thank the editing and production team at Manning for their help tweaking our text and improving the many figures and diagrams that dot this work.

We’d especially like to thank our technical reviewer, Alex Sexton, for lending his experience on this topic and for sharing his own treasure trove of third-party JavaScript tricks; John Ryan III for his review of the final manuscript during production, shortly before we went to press; and Paul Irish for contributing the foreword and for agreeing to lend his name to a couple of unworthy amateurs.