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Table of Contents
KnockoutJS by Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
License
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started
Understanding the MVVM design pattern
The model
The view model
The view
The key features of Knockout
Declarative bindings
Automatic UI refresh
Dependency tracking
Templating
Understanding the module pattern and its use with Knockout
The concept
Public and private members
Initializing the module
Using the module with view model
Building the address book application
A word on the development environment
Downloading the libraries
Creating the skeleton
Adding the application features
Capturing and storing contacts
Displaying contacts
Adding style to your application with Bootstrap
Resources
Summary
2. Creating a To-do List Application
Creating the skeleton
Adding and viewing tasks
Deleting a task
Completing a task
Setting priority for a task
Sorting tasks by priority and name
Viewing the number of total and completed tasks
Summary
3. Creating an Online Customer Registration Form
Getting started
Capturing personal information
Capturing contact details
Capturing residential and postal addresses
Capturing credit card details
Capturing interests
Clearing the registration form
Summary
4. Adding Validation to the Customer Registration Form
Validating the model using Knockout extenders
Validating model using the Knockout validation plugin
Getting started
The basics
Validating personal information
Validating contact details
Validating address details
Validating credit cards
Summary
5. Creating a Customer Banking Portal
Creating the skeleton
Navigating between application features
Viewing contact details and information about the bank
Viewing accounts
Viewing transactions for an account
Viewing personal information
Summary
6. Enhancing the Customer Banking Portal
Updating personal information
Cancel updating the personal information
Validating personal information
Transferring funds between accounts
Creating the Transfers tab
Creating the wizard component
Adding functionality to the wizard
Summary
7. Securing the Customer Banking Portal
Authentication mechanisms
Basics of the token-based authentication
Token versus session in cookies
JSON Web Token
Logging in to the application
Creating the authentication module
Creating the login screen
Refactoring the BankPortal module
Testing the application using different user accounts
Validating the login form
Handling the authentication error
Displaying the logged in user
Logging out of the application
Summary
8. Building an Editable Products Grid with CRUD Operations
A word on REST
Installing and running the sever
Creating the skeleton
Displaying the list of products
Deleting a product
Adding a product
Updating a product
Summary
9. Using Google Maps APIs with Knockout
Creating the skeleton
Capturing address using autocomplete
Displaying address details
Rendering the map
Placing markers on the map
Displaying route between markers
Summary
Index
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Author
Adnan Jaswal
Reviewers
Taswar Bhatti
Scott Durow
Magesh Kuppan
Commissioning Editor
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Acquisition Editor
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Content Development Editor
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Technical Editor
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Adnan Jaswal is technologist with vast knowledge and experience in technology consultancy, solution architecture, and software development. He has designed and developed software for government, education, financial, cyber security, logistics, and aviation industries. He believes in the digital revolution and the power it possesses to change the way people and businesses interact with technology. He is passionate about JavaScript technologies and views them as an enabler of digital change.
He has worked for companies such as CA Technologies and Object Consulting. He currently works, as a manager, for one of the big four professional services networks. His role involves technology consulting, architecting, leading teams, developing software, and helping clients respond to digital disruption.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and two children. He can be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adnanjaswal.
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I would like to thank the team of editors, proof readers, and designers who contributed to the quality of this book. My special thanks goes to the technical reviewers of this book for identifying mistakes and suggesting improvements.
To my teachers and mentors, thank you for contributing to my knowledge and experience. I would also like to extent my appreciation to all my colleagues and peers. I enjoy our discussions and collaborations, and they have helped me with the content of this book.
Special thanks also goes to all my family and friends for sharing my happiness and supporting me when I started this project.
To my beautiful children, Heba and Zaki, thank you for the understanding on those days when I was away writing this book. You both bring me so much joy and make me smile every single day. You missed out on daddy time while I was writing this book and I will try my best to make it up.
Finally, to my lovely wife Sadia, thank you for your love and support as I fit the writing schedule into our already overly busy life. You took on additional duties every weekend I had to go write this book. The hard work you put in and the motivation you have is my inspiration. This book has been a long journey for all of us and I could not have done it without you.
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Taswar Bhatti is a system architect at Gemalto, an international digital security company in Ottawa, Canada. He has been working in the software industry for more than 15 years. He focuses on building secure, highly-distributed, and scalable solutions.
He is also the author of Instant Automapper, Packt Publishing. He regularly speaks at meetups and code camps, and blogs on http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com. You can follow him on Twitter @taswarbhatti.
Scott Durow is an experienced software architect and technologist with a passion for enabling business transformation through the Microsoft tech...
