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KnockoutJS by Example

By : Adnan Jaswal
Book Image

KnockoutJS by Example

By: Adnan Jaswal

Overview of this book

KnockoutJS By Example is a project-based guide that introduces the key features and concepts of knockout.js. It helps you create an application skeleton and a Hello World application. You will develop a To-Do list application that aims to show the basic features of knockout.js in action, such as data binding and observables, following which you will develop a dynamic online customer registration form that captures and validates customer information. This book will further walk you through developing a customer banking portal, which demonstrates the use of knockout.js with components such as navigation bars, tabs, carousels, master details view, panels, forms, and wizards. You will also discover how to use token-based authentication and authorization to secure the customer banking portal, and move on to creating an editable products grid with CRUD operations. Finally, you will explore how to use the Google Maps API with knockout.js. KnockoutJS By Example will not only leave you with a basic understanding of knockout.js fundamentals but also take you through some of the advanced features. It will help you get a web application up and ready instantly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
KnockoutJS by Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing personal information


The last user story for this chapter is about displaying the personal information to the user. The personal information includes user's first name, last name, phone number, e-mail address, and postal address. We are instructed to display this information in a form. The user should not be able to edit the information in the form. The user story to be able to edit the personal information will come at a later stage.

Let's start by retrieving the personal information form the server data and constructing our model. The data for personal information is retrieved from the sever side as part of the server.getMemberData call. We need to extract this data and set it in our model. Update the model and add attributes for first name, last name, phone number, e-mail address, and postal address. The postal address should include attributes for street, city, post code, and country. We will make this attributes as observables keeping in mind that we will need to implement the...