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KnockoutJS Starter

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Eric M. Barnard
November 2012

Learn how to knock out your next app in no time with KnockoutJS with this book and ebook.

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Book Details

ISBN 139781782161141

Paperback50 pages

About This Book

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Learn how to develop a deployable app as the author walks you through each step
Understand how to customize and extend KnockoutJS to take your app to the next level
Great examples showing how KnockoutJS can simplify your code and make it more robust

Who This Book Is For

The "KnockoutJS Starter" guide is for anyone who is curious if KnockoutJS can add to their application development practice. It is written so that novice developers can easily follow along, but is advanced enough that even seasoned developers can glean useful and practical knowledge.

Chapter 1: KnockoutJS Starter

So, what is Knockout?

Installation

Quick start

Top features you need to to know about

People and places you should get to know

What You Will Learn

Learn about the Model-View-ViewModel pattern with practical examples
Find out why data binding is so useful when building applications
Explore the core library objects and components that KnockoutJS has to offer
Discover how to leverage KnockoutJS to solve most of your common development needs
Build practical project structures and learn how to organize a maintainable code base
Understand how KnockoutJS’s observables and bindings work under-the-hood
Create your own custom bindings
Practice pro debugging and development techniques

In Detail

Knockout is a JavaScript library that allows developers to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. It’s a JavaScript MVVM library to help you create rich, dynamic user interfaces with clean maintainable code.

The "KnockoutJS Starter" guide pulls from real-world professional app development experiences and brings those to readers in a way that is easy to understand. It works through practical examples in order to showcase both the power of the KnockoutJS library, and illustrate best practices when developing apps.

The guide starts off by working through a real-life app, and then breaks down the patterns and components for the reader to easily understand and reference.

Working through the examples, the reader will see strategies for building out an easy-to-maintain application structure and grasp best-practices for separating business logic from user interface code. Concepts such as retrieving data, building custom user-interface components, and avoiding common mistakes are explained in detail so that the reader can quickly become a pro.

All in all the "KnockoutJS Starter" guide will empower readers with the knowledge they need to take their development skills to another level with KnockoutJS.

Authors

Eric M. Barnard

Eric Barnard is a Software Engineer in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He truly feels that a great day starts with a fresh pot of coffee and a blank JavaScript file on his computer screen. Eric grew up on a farm in central Indiana, where he attended Purdue University. After graduating from Purdue, he sharpened his web development and startup skills as a Fellow in the Governor Robert Orr Fellowship in Indianapolis. At the time of this writing, Eric has recently got married and spends his free time attempting to keep his wife sane. He is the author of the Knockout Validation plugin and "KoGrid" a JavaScript DataGrid completely built on top of Knockout. You can find his blog at www.ericbarnard.com.

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