Knockout.js: Building Dynamic Client-Side Web Applications

Knockout.js: Building Dynamic Client-Side Web Applications

<div><p>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.</p><p>If you’re a web developer with experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, you’re ready for Knockout.</p><ul><li>Learn how to create a ViewModel</li><li>Bind HTML data and attributes, and CSS classes and styles</li><li>Understand data binding in Knockout’s context hierarchy</li><li>Use properties that change dynamically through user interaction</li><li>Work with forms by using several different bindings</li><li>Bind multiple ViewModels on a single page</li><li>Extend or attach custom functions to observables</li><li>Perform server-side interactions with jQuery</li><li>Map a JavaScript object or apply JSON data to a new object</li></ul></div>