Knockout.JS Essentials

Knockout.JS Essentials

Overview of this book

If you are a JavaScript developer who has been using DOM manipulation libraries such as Mootools or Scriptaculous, and you want go further in modern JavaScript development with a simple and well-documented library, then this book is for you. Learning how to use Knockout will be perfect as your next step towards building JavaScript applications that respond to user interaction.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Free Chapter

1. Refreshing the UI Automatically with KnockoutJS

KnockoutJS and the MVVM pattern

A real-world application – koCart

Installing components

The view-model

Observables to refresh the UI automatically

Summary

2. KnockoutJS Templates

Preparing the project

Creating templates

Handling templates with if and ifnot bindings

Managing templates with jQuery

Managing templates with koExternalTemplateEngine

Summary

3. Custom Bindings and Components

Custom bindings

Create a binding to debug – the toJSON binding

Summary

4. Managing KnockoutJS Events

Event-driven programming

The click event

Event types

Event binding

Unobtrusive events with jQuery

Delegation pattern

Building custom events

Events and bindings

Summary

5. Getting Data from the Server

REST services

Defining CRUD

Singleton resources

Setting CRUD operations in the resource

Using resources in the view-model

Using Mockjax to mock HTTP requests

Generating mock data with MockJSON

Retrieving a product by ID

Creating a new product

Separation of concerns – behavior and data

Creating the product service

Creating the CartProduct service

Updating a product

Deleting a product

Sending the order to the server

Handling AJAX errors

Validating data

Extending the product model

Extending the customer model

Summary

6. The Module Pattern – RequireJS

Installing the Knockout context debugger extension

The console

The module pattern

Creating the Shop module

Events, bindings, and Knockout components

Updating the add-to-cart-button component

Updating events

Using RequireJS to manage dependencies

Updating the template engine

Configuring RequireJS

Using RequireJS in our project

Defining the app.js file

Converting a normal module into an AMD module

Applying RequireJS to components

Applying RequireJS to mocks

Applying RequireJS to bindings

Applying RequireJS to events

The limits of the application

Summary

7. Durandal – The KnockoutJS Framework

Installing Durandal

The shell view-model

Durandal life cycle

Building a page with Durandal

Summary

8. Developing Web Applications with Durandal – The Cart Project

Introduction

Setting up the project

Routing the project – the shell view-model

The navigation and shell templates

Grouping code by feature – managing big projects

Summary

Index

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Installing the Knockout context debugger extension

In the previous chapters, you created a simple debugger to show the state of your view-model. This is very useful to see the state of our application quickly. With the debug binding, you don't need to open the extension tools to check what is happening to your data. But you often isolate just a part of the application or see what is happening with the models bound to a DOM element.

In Google Chrome, you have a very good extension called KnockoutJS context debugger, which can be downloaded from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knockoutjs-context-debugg/oddcpmchholgcjgjdnfjmildmlielhof.

This extension allows you to view the bindings of each DOM node and trace online the changes in your view-model through the console. Install it and restart the Chrome browser.

Check in chrome://extensions whether KnockoutJS context debugger has been installed

To check the context bound to your models, open Chrome Developer Tools by pressing F12 and opening...

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