Assertfail

MVVM Plus Conductor with Knockout js

01 Dec 2011

A better fit in the browser world for knockout than MVC is to have something like a controller. A class responsible for being an endpoint for routes. This is naturally coupled with the responsibility of changing between screens. Since controller is such a loaded word, lets simply call it conductor.

That gives you the following components: Model view, view-model and conductor. In order to implement the pattern you can use crossroads js or something similar.

That means that crossroads will route to different conductors that marries view-models and views and sends them off. When the view-model changes in such a way that it needs to update the url, it tells the conductor to change the url. Anyone can also ask a conductor to present an object (thus changing the url and updating the screen).

Tags


Comments

Do you want to send a comment or give me a hint about any issues with a blog post: Open up an issue on GitHub.

Do you want to fix an error or add a comment published on the blog? You can do a fork of this post and do a pull request on github.