For the last few months I have been working on a large, complex KnockoutJS application.
Along the way I have picked up a number of patterns and techniques that have helped keep things manageable.
One of the most important lessons was to learn to love custom bindings. Today I will show an example of how you can use a custom binding to add reusable logic to your views without having to make changes to your viewmodels.
Last week an interesting thread was started on the NodeJS mailing list.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/iy7Re33dwyU/yxwLlx1aUNMJ
Roger Wang from the Intel Open Source Technology Center posted about a new project from their team called node-webkit.
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
node-webkit brings WebKit to NodeJS. With it, client side applications can be written with a HTML/CSS UI on the NodeJS platform. We believe the async I/O framework and Javascript language is a perfect combination for client (mobile) side applications.
Time for a quick tutorial on how to get a site up and running on AppHarbor using Nancy and MongoDb.
Today my toolset of choice for a quick learning session is Nancy.
Reading straight from the box
Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions.
Got that? Think of it as a replacement for WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.
First in my “Learn Something New” series is Knockout, a javascript MVVM framework.
Knockout is beautifully simplistic. You define a ViewModel, bind it to your UI, and away it goes keeping the two in sync. It really is beautiful stuff for a javascript heavy UI.