Mastering KnockoutJS details

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Book: Mastering KnockoutJS
Author: Timothy Moran
Publisher: Packt Publishing

Book contents

Chapter 1: Knockout Essentials, covers the environment setup and basic use of the Knockout library. It also covers data binding, observables, binding handlers, and extenders, and demonstrates a simple Knockout Contacts List application.

Chapter 2: Knockout Essentials, covers the environment setup and basic use of the Knockout library. It also covers data binding, observables, binding handlers, and extenders, and demonstrates a simple Knockout Contacts List application.

Chapter 3: Extending Knockout with Preprocessors and Providers, teaches you how to use node and binding preprocessors and binding providers to customize Knockout's syntax. It also explores the Knockout Punches library.

Chapter 4: Application Development with Components and Modules, explains how to use RequireJS Asynchronous Module Definitions (AMDs) with Knockout to create organized, modular viewmodels. It also teaches you how to use the new Knockout components 

Chapter 5: Durandal – the Knockout Framework, explores the basics of the Knockout-based Durandal framework. This chapter covers composition, routing, modal dialogs, and custom widgets.

Chapter 6: Advanced Durandal, continues looking at the use of the Durandal framework. This chapter covers events, advanced composition, nested routers, custom dialogs, and the observable plugin.

Chapter 7: Best Practices, takes a deep dive into the inner workings of Knockout. It includes dependency detection and the publish/subscribe implementation, observable inheritance, the template engine, and a complete Knockout utility (ko.utils) reference.

Chapter 8: Plugins and Other Knockout Libraries, gives you an overview of the recommended patterns and practices for Knockout developers.

Chapter 9: Under the Hood, covers several popular Knockout plugins, including Knockout validation, Knockout mapping, and the new Knockout-ES5 plugin.

Some interesting facts: Knockout is a library designed for Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) development. This pattern, a descendant of Martin Fowler's Presentation model, encourages the separation of User Interface (UI) from the business logic of the domain model. To facilitate this separation, Knockout provides the three necessary components for implementing this pattern, namely, a declarative syntax for the view (the data-bind HTML attribute), a mechanism to notify changes from the viewmodel (the observable object), and a data binder to mediate between the two (Knockout's binding handler).

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