jQuery plugin template – best practice, convention, performance and memory impact

A while back I’ve build a plugin generator based on a blog article I have read: http://jsfiddle.net/KeesCBakker/QkPBF/. It might be of use. It is fairly basic and straight forward. Any comments would be very welcome.

You can fork your own generator and change it to your needs.

Ps. This is the generated body:

(function($){

    //My description
    function MyPluginClassName(el, options) {

        //Defaults:
        this.defaults = {
            defaultStringSetting: 'Hello World',
            defaultIntSetting: 1
        };

        //Extending options:
        this.opts = $.extend({}, this.defaults, options);

        //Privates:
        this.$el = $(el);
    }

    // Separate functionality from object creation
    MyPluginClassName.prototype = {

        init: function() {
            var _this = this;
        },

        //My method description
        myMethod: function() {
            var _this = this;
        }
    };

    // The actual plugin
    $.fn.myPluginClassName = function(options) {
        if(this.length) {
            this.each(function() {
                var rev = new MyPluginClassName(this, options);
                rev.init();
                $(this).data('myPluginClassName', rev);
            });
        }
    };
})(jQuery);