JavaScript is a great language, but building complex user interfaces for websites and web apps using JavaScript alone can get tedious and fiddly. You have to deal with cross-browser issues, as well as write long-winded functions to manipulate the DOM (document object model), handle events, and more.
For this reason, a large number of useful JavaScript libraries have emerged in recent years to make your job as a JavaScript coder easier and more fun.
One recent library that’s growing in popularity is Knockout. It’s small, easy to use, and plays nicely with other JavaScript libraries such as jQuery. Using Knockout, you can build complex user interfaces in a fraction of the time that it would take you to code everything by hand.
In this tutorial, you learn Knockout from the ground up. You explore the key concepts behind Knockout, and learn how to create interactive web pages quickly and easily. At the end of the tutorial, you work through a complete “product selection” example that shows how to use Knockout in practice.
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