The problem with complex web UIs

With the rise of single-page web applications, it became a must to be able to manage the growth and complexity of a JavaScript code base. The same applies to ClojureScript.

In an effort to manage this complexity, a plethora of JavaScript MVC frameworks have emerged, such as AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, and KnockoutJS, to name a few.

They are very different, but share a few common features:

  • Giving single-page applications more structure by providing models, views, controllers, templates, and so on
  • Providing client-side routing
  • Employing two-way data binding

In this chapter, we'll be focusing on the last goal.

Two-way data binding is absolutely crucial if we are to develop even a moderately complex single-page ...

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