An overview of the Durandal framework

Durandal is built on top of Knockout, jQuery, and RequireJS. Durandal's core is a collection of AMD modules, which provide composition, events, and activation features, as well as some utility functions. In addition to the core modules, Durandal also provides several plugins that can optionally be activated, or added to with community or personal plugins. The plugins include the router (a basic requirement for every SPA framework), dialogs, and widgets.

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The documentation for Durandal can be found at http://durandaljs.com/docs.html.

Promises

To bring all of this together, Durandal's internal and external communication is handled through promises. If you aren't familiar with JavaScript promises—sometimes called thenables because they provide a then method—you're missing out. To explain briefly, promises change the way asynchronous actions are handled by replacing a callback with a return object that represents the asynchronous work. It allows asynchronous...