KnockoutJS Web Development

Efficiently work with data, web templates, and custom HTML tags using KnockoutJS

About This Book

• Simplify page logic with automated calculations and control the visibility of your CSS elements with the help of robust yet friendly templates
• Create your own custom HTML tags that provide dynamic interactive logic using meaningful markup naming conventions and structures
• Use best practices to work with simple as well as complex data that interacts with your view components

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers and designers who work with HTML and JavaScript to help them manage data and interactivity with data using KnockoutJS. Knowledge about jQuery will be useful but is not necessary.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the MVVM design is and how it can be made approachable
• Simplify the usability of simple and detailed data collections
• Work with web form fields including simpler ways to manage nested data collections
• Manage your nested data collections efficiently, with web form fields
• Use the alternative mapping style of coding with KnockoutJS mapping
• Learn the joy of browser-side templates to render KnockoutJS friendly code
• Create your own custom HTML tags that provide dynamic interactive logic using meaningful markup naming conventions and structures
• Simplify page logic with automated calculations and control the visibility of your CSS elements with the help of robust yet friendly templates

In Detail

Knockout is a jQuery-friendly library that helps you to create rich, responsive displays and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model.

Starting with the installation and configuration of KnockoutJS, this book will describe the ins and outs of working with forms using arrays, nesting, and grids.

You will learn about event binding and context binding properties using JSON and AJAX. You will then explore the features of KnockoutJS like mapping and how to go about it using controller options. You will also learn how to use this feature for mapping multiple objects and managing them. This book provides an in-depth explanation of native templates, enhanced collection handling, and render event handling using third-party template engines.

By the end of the book, you will have knowledge of all the different functionalities KnockoutJS has to offer.