till's blog

I know some of you out there are probably tired of jQuery and people raving about it's goodness, but bare with me! Because jQuery never ceases to amaze me — especially when I haven't looked at it — or client-side JavaScript code in general — in a good year or so.

Refactoring

I've been refactoring some of my old JavaScript libs on a project and I noticed that I had used evil eval() all over the place to parse the JSON from our API. Guess we all know that this is not just a security issue since it allows code execution, but also a performance hit. And here's how to get around it. :-)

A codesnippet to automatically parse a JSON response from a $.post-request:

$.post(
  '/the-url-post-to',
  data,
  function(json) {
    // handle response
  },
  'json'
);

Note: The 4th parameter 'json' in $.post(). Magic.

Fin

That's all.