Chapter 7. Durandal – The KnockoutJS Framework

Through six chapters, we have built a complete frontend application with the basic libraries.

We have used some libraries to achieve our objective:

  • Bootstrap 3: To have a solid, responsive, and cross-browser base style in CSS3
  • jQuery: To manipulate the DOM and communicate with the server side through AJAX
  • Mockjax: To fake AJAX communication
  • MockJSON: To create fake data
  • KnockoutJS: To bind data and synchronize JavaScript data and views easily

We have also applied some design patterns to improve the quality of our code:

  • The reveal pattern: To show the public interface of our objects and hide the private properties and methods
  • The module pattern: To isolate our code and make it portable
  • The dependency injection ...

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