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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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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

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.

Note

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...

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