Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The retrieveContact function, which is used to retrieve a contact from the server-side."

A block of code is set as follows:

var contact = {
    id: 1,
    name: 'John',
    phoneNumber: '00 11 000000'
};

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

/* the model */
var member = {
    accounts: ko.observableArray(),
    selectedAccount: ko.observable(),
    selectedAccountTransactions: ko.observableArray([])
};

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Open the application in the browser and try hitting Submit without entering any information in the form fields."