KnockoutJS Essentials

Create a binding to debug – the toJSON binding

When we develop our project, we make mistakes and we find unexpected behaviors. The Knockout view-model is hard to read because we don't have plain objects, we have observables. Because of this, maybe it's useful to have a method and a container inside our application that shows us the state of the view-model during the development process. This is why we are going to build a toJSON binding that becomes our view-model into a plain JSON object that we can show into the screen or in our console.

ko.bindingHandlers.toJSON = {
  update: function(element, valueAccessor){
    return ko.bindingHandlers.text.update(element,function(){
      return ko.toJSON(valueAccessor(), null, 2);
    });
  }
};

We have used the ko.toJSON ...