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Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript

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Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript

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Especially considerring Knockout Model plugin that basically adds Backbone-style capabilities to KO models. Other notable plugins give easy bindings for jQuery UI widgets,…

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Observed mentions: 2010-10-20 13:51:01 UTC to 2020-04-10 08:24:28 UTC.

0123452010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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bartread·Apr 10, 2020
Both Plotly.js and KnockoutJS are great examples of stability. I think KnockoutJS may still the only (formerly) major framework that focussed only on doing data-binding really well without adding in loads of other functionality. As you say, a shame it died out. I don't know if KnockoutJS is dead, so much as done or perhaps complete. If all you want is data-binding it might be worth considering. It was released as recently as 5 months ago (https://www.npmjs.com/package/knockout) and it's still getting the occasional bug fix: https://github.com/knockout/knockout/pulls I suppose it's not that trendy so good luck getting buy-in at a team level, but it would certainly still work for a bunch of different use cases.
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ghuntley·Jan 7, 2015
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ver4j https://github.com/sensu/sensu-community-plugins/blob/master/handlers/notification… https://github.com/schneems/wicked/wiki/Testing-Wicked-with-RSpec https://github.com/schneems/wicked https://github.com/satyr/coco https://github.com/satyr https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/546 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-delegatedEvents https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-amd-helpers https://github.com/qbit/node-pushover https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/issues/432 https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked https://github.com/Nuku/Flexible-Survival/blob/master/Stripes/Candy https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick https://github.com/nemomobile/lipstick https://github.com/mrmrs/colors https://github.com/mirage https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/issues/78 https://github.com/LubosD/darling https://github.com/laprice/pushover https://github.com/kryap/php-pushover https://github.com/krisselden/broccoli-sane-watcher https://github.com/Knockout-Contrib/Knockout-Validation https://github.com/knockout/knockout https://github.com/knockout https://github.com/kirang20/wgxp-java-rosa https://github.com/jreese/znc-push/blob/master/doc/pushover.md https://github.com/jnwatts/pushover.sh https://github.com/jfinkels/flask-restless/ https://github.com/jasonlewis/resource-watcher https://github.com/huxi/lilith https://github.com/hannorein/rebound https://github.com/gregghz/Watcher https://github.com/feuerbach/tasty https://github.com/facebook/rebound-js https://github.com/facebook/rebound https://github.com/erniebrodeur/pushover https://github.com/entertailion/Fling/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/enkydu/raspi_runner https://github.com/dyaa/Laravel-pushover https://github.com/danesparza/Pushover.NET https://github.com/crazed https://github.com/callmenick/css-loaders-spinners-2/tree/master/js https://github.com/callmenick/css-loaders-spinners-2 https://github.com/allure-framework/allure-core https://github.com/abrt/satyr Thanks for reaching out to us! We have received your legal request. We receive many such complaints each day; your message is in our queue, and we'll get to it as quickly as our workload permits. Due to the large volume of requests that we experience, please note that we will only be able to provide you with a response if we determine your request may be a valid and actionable legal complaint, and we may respond with questions or requests for clarification. For more information on Google's Terms of Service, please visit http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS Regards, The Google Team
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candl·May 5, 2014
These seem to be React wrappers around KendoUI. There are wrappers in Knockout for the same library as well. http://kendo-labs.github.io/knockout-kendo/index.html Writing custom bindings in Knockout is quite easy. I also do not understand the appeal of React. Performance is often cited because of the virtual DOM implementation, but for example in this benchmark Knockout is three times faster than React in my browser. http://vuejs.org/perf/todomvc-benchmark/ The only criticism that can be made against Knockout is the syntax when using observables in bindings (the ugly and error prone parentheses) and lack of reusable components. The first is solvable by using the Knockout-ES5 plugin if we are willing to drop IE6 to IE8 support. As for the second, components are finally comming to Knockout: https://github.com/knockout/knockout/pull/1396
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andrewl-hn·Dec 13, 2011Recommendation phrase
Especially considerring Knockout Model plugin that basically adds Backbone-style capabilities to KO models. Other notable plugins give easy bindings for jQuery UI widgets, Underscore support for collections and external templates: https://github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout/wiki/Plugins I'd also like to point out that in the upcomming release Knockout ads several nifty improvements: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/08/31/knockout-1-3-0-be... My favorite are control flow bindings that let you write templating code right inside your HTML and not withing script tags. When you have to write markup inside a script tag you editor might get the whole autocompletion, formatting and syntax coloring wrong. And in past it was relly annoying for me. So having templates in HTML, not in script is really great. One thing that helps a lot is that all
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bindings are defined inside data-attributes which keeps markup valid. Most editors support them well, too. Ember's double-braced template attributes are really weak choice in this regard. And if you're worried about javascript bits inside data-bind attributes you now have an option to separate them via binding providers (see blog post above). The syntax is somewhat clunky but still workable and I suppose it can be improved. Provided that Knockout has a vibrant community and growing support inside .NET world I think Ember has nothing to offer to make me switch. And that's unfortunate. Today I see like most frameworks converges to some common ground. Knockout gets more features from Backbone. Backbone gets more features from Knockout (there's at least one bindings plugin for BB although it pales in comparison to Ko). And as far as I can see we as a JavaScript community reached the next base. - We started with simple Ajax libraries. - Then we moved to widgets. - Now we got MVP frameworks and think more about organizing our applications in general. What's the next step? That's the most important question for me and for other JS professionals that I talked to at recent local conference. When I saw Yahuda's announcement I really hoped that he'd give us a clue. Instead we got another MVP variant and not a top one although a pretty solid. I suspect that Ember still will get some users. Yahuda has dedicated fans (me included) and Knockout as something coming from .NET world has a somewhat hard time getting adoption among the general JS crowd. Maybe that's a good thing: two frameworks are very similar and can learn from one another. But I personally hoped for more. Still, congrats on releasing the thing! Keep it up!
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