Chapter 7. Durandal – The KnockoutJS Framework

Through six chapters, we have built a complete frontend application with the basic libraries.

We have used some libraries to achieve our objective:

• Bootstrap 3: To have a solid, responsive, and cross-browser base style in CSS3
• jQuery: To manipulate the DOM and communicate with the server side through AJAX
• Mockjax: To fake AJAX communication
• MockJSON: To create fake data
• KnockoutJS: To bind data and synchronize JavaScript data and views easily

We have also applied some design patterns to improve the quality of our code:

• The reveal pattern: To show the public interface of our objects and hide the private properties and methods
• The module pattern: To isolate our code and make it portable
• The dependency injection pattern: To improve cohesion and decrease coupling

Finally, we introduced a library that helps us to manage dependencies in our project, RequireJS.

In small projects you can work with just these libraries. When the project grows,...