What is Knockout?
It is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), it can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.
Knockout is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Knockout is an open source tool with 10.5K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Knockout's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Knockout?
Companies
40 companies reportedly use Knockout in their tech stacks, including Queue-it, Securly, and Huddle.
Developers
190 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Knockout.
Knockout Integrations
JavaScript, TinyMCE, DevExtreme, jQWidgets, and DNN are some of the popular tools that integrate with Knockout. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Knockout.
Pros of Knockout
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Knockout's Features
- Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax
- When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically
- Implicitly set up chains of relationships between model data, to transform and combine it
- Quickly generate sophisticated, nested UIs as a function of your model data
Knockout Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Knockout?
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
