knockout

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

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Knockout
Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (a modern variant of MVC) library that makes it easier to create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML. It uses observers to make your UI automatically stay in sync with an underlying data model, along with a powerful and extensible set of declarative bindings to enable productive development.

Getting started

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/knockout/knockout Totally new to Knockout? The most fun place to start is the online interactive tutorials. For more details, see Documentation on the project's website Online examples at http://knockoutjs.com/examples/

Downloading Knockout

You can download released versions of Knockout from the project's website. For Node.js developers, Knockout is also available from npm - just run npm install knockout.

Building Knockout from sources

If you prefer to build the library yourself:
  1. Clone the repo from GitHub
```sh
git clone https://github.com/knockout/knockout.git
cd knockout
```
  1. Acquire build dependencies.
Make sure you have [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) installed on your workstation. This is only needed to _build_ Knockout from sources. Knockout itself has no dependency on Node.js once it is built (it works with any server technology or none). Now run:
```sh
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install
```
The first `npm` command sets up the popular [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) build tool. You might need to run this command with `sudo` if you're on Linux or Mac OS X, or in an Administrator command prompt on Windows. The second `npm` command fetches the remaining build dependencies.
  1. Run the build tool
```sh
grunt
```
Now you'll find the built files in `build/output/`.

Running the tests

If you have phantomjs installed, then the grunt script will automatically run the specification suite and report its results. Or, if you want to run the specs in a browser (e.g., for debugging), simply open spec/runner.html in your browser.

License

MIT license - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php