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Use Knockout.js to design and build dynamic client-sideweb applications that are extremely responsive and easy to maintain. Thisexample-driven book shows you how to use this lightweight JavaScript frameworkand its Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. You’ll learn how to build your owndata bindings, extend the framework with reusable functions, and work with aserver to enhance your client-side application with persistence. In the finalchapter, 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

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