Windows® 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed

Summary

This chapter was all about displaying JavaScript objects in a page. In the first section, you learned about observables. In particular, you learned how observables enable you to detect automatically when a property of a JavaScript object changes. We also discussed how you can use the WinJS.Binding.List object to detect different types of changes in an array of items.

Next, you learned how to take advantage of declarative data binding with both normal JavaScript objects and observable JavaScript objects to display the values of JavaScript properties in a page.

Finally, I discussed how you can use WinJS templates to format and display an array of objects. You learned how to create templates both imperatively and declaratively.