May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
5h 35m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.js
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Preface
In today’s society, websites are about giving people information quickly and effectively. Gone are the days of people waiting for websites to load. Enter single-page web designs and websites that work on your computer or your phone.
This book will bring three extremely useful technologies together to demonstrate how you can build a website that will work on many modern devices without writing specific code for each device.
ASP.NET MVC 5 will be used to build sophisticated web applications (the controller), interact with a database (the model), and dynamically render HTML (the view).
Bootstrap will be used to build sleek and responsive views that render on a variety of modern devices. Bootstrap provides a set of custom components that makes it easy to build an incredible user experience with easy-to-implement HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Knockout.js will bring these technologies together by enhancing the responsive web design with snappy client-side interactions driven by the server-side web application.
Why These Technologies?
That’s a good question. If you have previous web development experience, it’s easy to think that you don’t need help, and that you can write your own HTML and CSS to create sleek and responsive web pages. I have more than 10 years of experience and since I was introduced to Bootstrap a few years ago, I’ve barely written any CSS.
Bootstrap provides two big advantages:
- The developers have taken the time to write and organize the CSS that is used repetitively ...
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