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I am currently working on an ASP.NET MVC solution and have recently introduced both Knockout (an MVVM JS library) and Wijmo (a set of jQuery UI widgets). With the introduction of Knockout I also need to have models on the client side, so for this purpose I am serializing the C# ViewModel and attaching it to the view using data-model="@Model.ToJson()" . This allows me to retrieve the model from JS and apply some client-side love to everything. However, knockout needs everything to be observables, so I need to declare a separate client-side ViewModel and map everything from the data-model object. This feels very much like duplicate effort and I'd like to avoid it somehow. I'm hoping someone has a tool or technique to share that will allow me to render the knockout ViewModel directly from the server. Possible solution could include: Custom JSON serialization to render the observable view model directly to the output in the data-model attribute. Automatic client-side transformation (I've heard of ko-autobind, but am not sure if it would be a recommended path to take or how stable/complete it is) Something I haven't thought of I'd like the solution to be generic and automatic, as my current approach of typing the observable client-side view models by hand is just too unproductive to be viable. How are you solving this problem?

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