I've recently got up to speed with Knockout and I think it's a fantastic framework. However I have one concern.
I'm finding that in non-trivial binding cases, I have snippets of javascript code creeping into my view (markup). In fact quite a few code samples in the Knockout documentation demonstrate this too.
Does this make Knockout inherently obtrusive?
Should I just accept it for what it is and not be worried in practice?
Or are there any patterns/techniques I should be employing to make Knockout unobtrusive?
Great question. I've been writing complex KnockoutJS views for awhile and was never satisfied until I switched to Ryan Niemeyer's class binding provider.
The Knockout ClassBindingProvider allows you to declare your bindings in a JavaScript object and then reference them from a data-class attribute similar to how css classes work. It works great!
See an example TodoMVC app.