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MASTERING KNOCKOUTJS

You're reading from   MASTERING KNOCKOUTJS Use and extend Knockout to deliver feature-rich, modern web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981007
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Timothy Moran Timothy Moran
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Knockout Essentials 2. Extending Knockout with Custom Binding Handlers FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Knockout with Preprocessors and Providers 4. Application Development with Components and Modules 5. Durandal – the Knockout Framework 6. Advanced Durandal 7. Best Practices 8. Plugins and Other Knockout Libraries 9. Under the Hood Index

KoGrid


KoGrid is a plugin that creates a binding that renders tabular data. As its GitHub page notes, it is "a direct knockout port of ng-grid which was originally inspired by KoGrid, which was inspired by SlickGrid." Its history might have been affected by the grandfather paradox.

In its most basic operation mode, KoGrid can bind against an array of objects, turning their properties into columns and their values into cells:

var vm = {
      people: ko.observableArray([{name: "Moroni", age: 50},
                                      {name: "Tiancum", age: 43},
                                      {name: "Jacob", age: 27},
                                      {name: "Nephi", age: 29},
                                      {name: "Enos", age: 34}])
   }
<div class="gridStyle" data-bind="koGrid: { data: people }"></div>

You can see this example in the cp8-kogrid branch. Except for needing to manually specify, through style of CSS, the dimensions of the grid itself, everything else...

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