Yeah, I love knockout. And honestly with version 2, they've implemented native templates, which basically means you can write your templates in HTML instead of strings (gasp!). I much prefer this concept. Templates in strings never made sense to me when we already have a DOM to take advantage of, but only recently have I seen some of the great work out there to make this possible, like this, Lift's CSS selector transforms (http://simply.liftweb.net/index-7.10.html ), Nodejitsu's weld (https://github.com/hij1nx/weld ), etc.