knockout experiments

knockout.js is a nice MVVM (Model View ViewModel) framework for easily binding values to DOM elements (View), with a small footprint, and is good for rapid prototyping.

You can open the example directly at http://matths.github.io/knockout-experiments/ and look into the source using the developer tools of your favourite browser.

custom elements

It also enables the creation of custom html dom elements (close to web components) with the same kind of binding. (http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/component-custom-elements.html)

my examples so far

I just started building a basic example. So far it offers insights two the following stuff:

• creation / use of custom elements
• mode switching (view/edit)
• custom attributes (knockout.js itself offers just the data-bind attribute for components and the params attribute for custom elements)

using https://github.com/SteveSanderson/ko-custom-elems-test/blob/master/lib/knockout-customElements.js by @SteveSanderson

<editable-label content="{{yourContentVar}}"></editable-label>

• reuse of custom elements

<name-form firstname="{{firstname}}" lastname="{{lastname}}"></name-form>

applications using knockout.js

I have found that the skype web client is using knockout.js https://web.skype.com/. How cool is that? ;)