The document discusses Knockout, a JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces. It provides an overview of Knockout's core concepts including declarative bindings, dependency tracking, and templates. It also describes common patterns for using Knockout such as MVVM and building views, view models, and models. Key bindings and functionality are defined including observables, computed observables, and observable arrays.

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September 15, 2012

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8.  Independent Consultant – Napeague Inc.
 First Commercial Personal Computer 1980 – TRS-80 Model III
 First Z80 based product (Protocol Adaptor For Citibank– 1984)
 First Commercial MS-DOS product (Telex/IBM PC, 50 Baud – 1985)
 Started Windows Development using 16-bit Win 3.x
 Used: 8080/Z80, 68xxx, PDP/RSX,VAX-VMS and x86 (C, C++, C#)
 User Group/Meetup Co-Organizer:
 New York Pluralsight Study Group, XAML NYC
 Other interests:
 Windsurfing, Guitar Playing

9.  Introduction to Knockout & MVVM
 Built-in bindings
 Custom bindings
 Templates

10.  Simple development pattern.
 MVVM, aka MVVC, sometimes MVC or MVP
 Separation of concerns (Pattern)
 Separates Model and UI
 Separates Behavior and Structure
 Popular with WPF & Silverlight developers.
 Data Binding makes it easy to implement MVVM.

11.  The 100K foot level view, Web Application
 Models, Controllers and Views
Web Application
DB
Views Controllers Models
Partial Views Routes Services
Partial Views Routes Services
Partial Views Routes Services
Code & Markup Code Code

12.  The browser level view
 HTML/CSS – JavaScript - JSON
Browser
View ViewModel Model
HTML & CSS JavaScript JSON
<h1> var x; {a: b }

13.  Javascript Library to simplify dynamic UIs
with automatic refresh.
 Core Concepts
 Declarative Bindings
 Dependency Tracking
 Templates
 Extensible

14.  If using ASP.NET MVC
 NuGet Package Manager
 Download
 knockoutjs
 jQuery

15.  Observable
 Computed Observable
 Observable Arrays
 Declarative bindings
 Template Support

16.  Create the Model
 Retrieve Data: usually via Ajax or other form data
retrieval (API, LocalStorage).
 Create the ViewModel
 Encapsulate UI behavior and data from model.
 Create the View (HTML Markup)
 <label data-bind=“text: name” />
 Bind the ViewModel to the view
 applyBindings(viewModel)

17. var viewModel = {
firstName: ko.observable("John"),
lastName: ko.observable("Doe")
};
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
First Name: <input type="text“ data-bind="value: firstName"/>
Last Name: <input type="text" data-bind=“value: lastName" />
<span data-bind="text : firstName"></span>
<input type="text" data-bind="value : lastName" />

18. var vm = {
quantity: ko.observable(10),
price: ko.observable(100),
taxRate: ko.observable(8.75)
};
viewModel = new vm();
viewModel.totalCost = ko.computed(function () {
return (parseInt("0" + this.quantity(), 10) * this.price()) * this.taxRate();
}, viewModel);
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);

19. var viewModel = {
States: ko.observableArray([
{ State: "New York", Cities: ['New York City', 'East Hampton', 'Yonkers'] },
{ State: "New Jersey", Cities: ['Jersey City', 'Hoboken', 'Maplewood'] },
{ State: "Connecticut", Cities: ['Stamford', 'Greenwich'] },
{ State: "Pennsylvania", Cities: ['Philadelphia'] },
]),
selectedState: ko.observable(),
selectedCity: ko.observable()
};
viewModel.selectionMade = ko.computed(function () {
return (this.selectedState() && this.selectedCity());
}, viewModel);
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);

20. Type Description
visible Used to hide or show DOM elements
text Display text value in a DOM element
html Display html in a DOM element
css Add or remove CSS classes from DOM elements
style Apply specific style to a DOM Element
attr Set the value of any attribute on a DOM element

21. binding Description
foreach Used for rendering lists based on array bindings.
If Conditional inclusion of markup and any related binding based on
truthy condition
Ifnot Conditional inclusion of markup and any related binding based on a
falsey condition
with Creates a new binding context changing what descendent element
bind to.

22. binding Description
click Add an event handler so a function is invoked when the associated
DOM element is clicked.
event Add an event handler than can be bound to any event, such as
keypress, mouseover or mouseout.
submit Event handler used when submitting forms.
enable Used to enable DOM elements only when the parameter value is
true. Typically used with form elements like input, select, and
textarea.
disable Opposite of enable. Used in the same way.

23. binding Description
value Associates a DOM’s element value with a propery on the
viewmodel.
hasfocus Two way binding for setting focus on an element and chekcing
whether an element has focus.
checked This binding is used for checkable controls. Radio button or
checkbox.
options Used to bind the elements of a drop-down list or multi-select list.
selectedOptions Bind to elements that are currently selected. Used with select and
options bindings.
uniqueName Gives an element a unique name if it does not already have a name
attribute.

24. // Subscribe
myViewModel.totalCost.subscribe(function(newValue) {
alert(“Let’s check if we are above our budget" + newValue);
});
// Dispose of subscription
var subscriptionCost =
myViewModel.totalCost.subscribe(function(newValue) {
/* do some work */
});
// ...then later...
subscriptionCost.dispose();

25.  Custom Bindings
 Plugins
 TodoMVC
 http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/
 Knockbackjs
 http://kmalakoff.github.com/knockback/
 KnockoutMVC
 http://knockoutmvc.com/

26.  Named Templates
 Anonymous Templates
 Inline
 External

27.  Register a binding by adding it as a
subproperty of ko.bindingHandlers.
 Need to supply two functions:
 init
 update
 And then use it with DOM element bindings.
<div data-bind=“customBindingName: someValue"> </div>

28. ko.bindingHandlers.customBindingName = {
init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, viewModel) {
// This will be called when the binding is first applied to an element
// Set up any initial state, event handlers, etc. here
},
update: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, VM) {
// This will be called once when the binding is first
// applied to an element, and again whenever the associated
// observable changes value.
// Update the DOM element based on the supplied values here.
}
};

29.  Main Site (Steve Sanderson - Author)
 http://knockoutjs.com
 Ryan Niemeyer - Contributor
 http://www.knockmeout.com

30.  Contact:
 http://blog.boulosdib.com
 @boulosdib