Conclusion

Knockout.js is a pure JavaScript library that makes it incredibly easy to build dynamic, data-centric user interfaces. We learned how to expose ViewModel properties using observables, bind HTML elements to those observables, manage user input with interactive bindings, export that data to a server-side script, and animate components with custom bindings. Hopefully, you’re more than ready to migrate this knowledge to your real-world web applications.

This book covered the vast majority of the Knockout.js API, but there are still a number of nuances left to discover. These topics include: custom bindings for aggregate data types, the throttle extender for asynchronous evaluation of computed observables, and manually subscribing to an observable’s events. However, all of these are advanced topics that shouldn’t be necessary for the typical web application. Nonetheless, Knockout.js provides a plethora of extensibility opportunities for you to explore.