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Luciano Cardoso
Luciano Cardoso

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Reducing spaghetti code on jquery application using model idea

Using jquery can be tricky sometimes, usually when code don't follow any concern separation. These cases are often related to a poor comprehension of javascript promises and callbacks.And is not rare to see a script file with tons of ajax calls passing the same parameters changing only the url.

As a possible workaround I would suggest making separated classes that holds ajax calls using M from MVC frameworks, js models.

So lets start by encapsulating the ajax calls. I end up with this script, but you can change for something that works for you.

class Api {
   static request(url, promise, formData, method) {
    if (promise)
      return $.ajax({
        url: url,
        dataType: 'json',
        method: method,
        data: formData
      })
    else
      $.ajax({
        url: url,
        dataType: 'json',
        method: 'POST',
        data: formData
      })
    }
}
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Next, lets do some template to render ours items.

var PostTemplates = {
    listItem:'<li><span>%(id)i</span><pre>%(title)s</pre></li>'
}

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Using a model idea lets create a class that centralize ajax calls related to that object

class Post {
    constructor(postInfo) {
        this.id = postInfo.id;
        this.title = postInfo.title;
    }

    static getList(){
        const url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts';
        let request = Api.request(url, true, {}, 'GET');
        return $.when(request); 
    }

    insert(){
         //...
    }

    remove(){
       //...
    }

    render(item){
        return sprintf(PostTemplates.listItem, this)
    }
}

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And for last lets use the model by calling getList function

Post.getList().then(function(posts){
    let rootElement = $("#banner-message");
    rootElement.empty();
    $.each(posts, function(index, postInfo){
         rootElement.append(new Post(postInfo).render());
    })
})
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