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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

Summary


In this chapter, we walked through adding validation to the customer registration form we built in the previous chapter. The chapter looked at two different techniques of applying validation. We first explored validating the model using custom extenders. We defined the required extender and learned how to apply error styles using the visible and css bindings. We applied validation to the first name field using our custom extender.

The second part of the chapter looked at applying validation to the model using the Knockout validation plugin. This part of the chapter walked you through the customer registration form and applied validation to the personal information, contact details, address, and credit card fields. We learned how to apply validation to static and dynamically created fields. We also learned how to apply conditional validation.

The next chapter is a first in a series of three on building a customer banking portal. In this chapter, we will learn how to build some of the...