Voodoo – A Todo list that demos the power of KnockoutJS
This small demo app will demonstrate the usage and power of JavaScript MVC frameworks and in particular KnockoutJS. You can learn more about the framework through the tutorials on the KO site. I will gloss over some of the details but you can learn more in framework documentation. My goal here is to give you a high-level sense of what’s possible. The picture along side shows what we’re building. You can find the demo here and the full sourcecode here. The HTML Strictly speaking jQuery is not required for KO to work but it is likely that you will often include it as a helper for the framework. As alway you need to start with the static resource inclusions. [code language=”html”] <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/knockout-2.0.0.js"></script> [/code] And you’ll need a form in order to create new todo items. [code language=”html”] <form data-bind="submit: addTask" id="create-todo"> <input class="new-todo" data-bind="value: newTaskText" …