Knockout 1 Fundamentals
Knockout is an MVVM JavaScript framework that allows you to quickly develop rich applications with a declarative style and rich templating support.
What you'll learn
As web applications become richer and more interactive, a better client-side experience is essential and expected by the user. KnockoutJS is a JavaScript MVVM framework that provides developers with a robust toolset including declarative bindings, dependency tracking, and advanced templating. In addition to all the powerful tools that are built-in, the extensibility of KnockoutJS is what allows you to take your applications to the next level. Whether you’re building a desktop browser application or a mobile application, KnockoutJS enables you to take full advantage of HTML5 and JavaScript while working in any mainstream browser.
Table of contents
- Introduction to Bindings 1m
- Overview of Built-in Bindings 5m
- Setting up Visual Studio for Knockout 2m
- 'Old School' Templating with jQuery Templates 6m
- Optimizing the Template with foreach 3m
- Templating with Native Knockout Templates 1m
- Control Flow Bindings 3m
- jQuery-style Event Handling with ko.dataFor() 4m
- Parent Binding Contexts 3m
- Nested Observables 5m
- Custom Bindings 2m
- Custom Bindings Demo 8m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Steve is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with Microsoft on the Azure Global Engineering team. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a 7-time Microsoft ASP.NET MVP. Steve is an ASPInsider and is a frequent presenter at developer conferences and user groups including Microsoft Ignite, MS Tech Summit, VSLive!, and AngularMIX. Steve is passionate about Azure, Angular, and Web technologies. You can reach him at stevemichelotti.com or on twitter at @smichelotti.