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Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js

Last week in Oslo I was lucky enough to attend the fantastic NDC 2014 conference, at which I gave the following talk about using brand-new not-yet-released Knockout.js features, along with Yeoman, Gulp, and Karma to build large single-page web apps in a very modern style (while still retaining backward compatibility all the way to IE 6!).

Published Jun 11, 2014

This should be of interest to anyone who uses Knockout or cares about scalable front-end architecture.

Contents

  • 00:00 Benefits and challenges of single-page apps; relevance of Knockout.js
  • 11:20 Demo: Knockout 3.2′s components and custom elements
  • 15:40 Demo: Using Yeoman to generate (“scaffold”) a scalable application architecture
  • 22:20 Demo: Scaffolding and building a new Knockout component
  • 30:50 Understanding Grunt and Gulp
  • 34:00 Demo: Using Gulp and require.js to produce control both preloading and incremental loading
  • 41:50 Testing – your options
  • 43:50 Demo: Adding Jasmine and Karma to the technology stack
  • 59:10 Summary: Overcoming the challenges of single-page app development

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Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js

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