Use Knockout.js to design and build dynamic client-side web applications that are extremely responsive and easy to maintain. This example-driven book shows you how to use this lightweight JavaScript framework and its Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. You’ll learn how to build your own data bindings, extend the framework with reusable functions, and work with a server to enhance your client-side application with persistence. In the final chapter, you’ll build a shopping cart to see how everything fits together.
If you’re a web developer with experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, you’re ready for Knockout.
Learn how to create a ViewModel
Bind HTML data and attributes, and CSS classes and styles
Understand data binding in Knockout’s context hierarchy
Use properties that change dynamically through user interaction
Work with forms by using several different bindings
Bind multiple ViewModels on a single page
Extend or attach custom functions to observables
Perform server-side interactions with jQuery
Map a JavaScript object or apply JSON data to a new object