JavaScript Regular Expression - Build A Validator Plugin

Learn solid skills in javascript Regular Expression and Build a jQuery Validator Plugin

Regular expression is one of the fundamental skills in programming tasks. It doesn't matter what kinds of applications you are building, you may have to deal with strings and regular expressions such as finding a sub string, extracting a sub string, validating user's input format, and replacing sub strings. These are especially for web development and for the most popular language on the web: javascript.

This course includes 2 parts:

In the first part, I will walk you through all important topics and skills in regular expression in javascript language. You will experience from the most basic topics to advanced areas in the language, which consist of:

Validate variety of users’ input formats: number formats, text formats, phone, email formats..
Validate and extract sub-string with grouping techniques
Apply different methods: test(), exec(), match()
Advanced replacing techniques: replacing with patterns, referring back to the matched groups, callback functions
Advanced techniques: look-ahead, greedy – reluctant quantifiers
In the second section, you will learn how to build a jQuery validator plugin, which covers:

How to build a plugin in jQuery
Provide default and custom options to plugin
Using the RegExp() object to create dynamic regular expression pattern

Students who take this course should already have basic knowledge and skills in javascript language and jQuery framework.

Tools

I use the Brackets Tool throughout the course, but you can use any tools as you prefer.