Introduction
Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create
rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean
underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update
dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an
external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply
and maintainably.
Headline features:
- Elegant dependency tracking - automatically updates the right parts of your UI whenever your data model changes
- Declarative bindings - a simple and obvious way to connect parts of your UI to your data model
- Flexible and sophisticated templating - construct a complex dynamic UI easily using arbitrarily nested templates
- Trivially extensible - implement custom behaviors as new declarative bindings for easy reuse in just a few lines of code
Additional benefits:
- Pure JavaScript library - works with any server or client-side technology
- Can be added on top of your existing web application without requiring major architectural changes
- Compact - around 25kb before gzipping
- Works on any mainstream browser (IE 6+, Firefox 2+, Chrome, Safari, others)
- Comprehensive suite of specifications (developed BDD-style) means its correct functioning can easily be verified on new browsers and platforms
Installation
Knockout’s core library is pure JavaScript and doesn’t depend
on any other libraries. So, to add KO to your project, just follow these
steps:
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Download the latest version of the Knockout JavaScript file from here. For normal development and production use, use the default, minified version (
knockout-x.y.z.js).
For debugging only, use the larger, non-minified version (knockout-x.y.z.debug.js). This behaves the same as the minified version, but has human-readable source code with full variable names and comments, and does not hide internal APIs.
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Reference the file using a
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