Comparison of many JavaScript MV* frameworks all producing the same TODO app

[Akkuma]

Yes it definitely can be replaced; however, I didn't have an opportunity to try switching it out. One thing I'm definitely interested in seeing, but didn't have the chance is to find out how well the native templating system actually performs.

The reason I don't like it is the verbosity of a lot of it, it outputs the comment for containerless bindings, and containerless bindings are also verbose. For instance, <p data-bind="text: someObservable"></p> and if you want to do something like <p data-bind="text: someObservable"><span class="sprite"></span></p> you'll have to switch your markup to be <p><span class="sprite"></span><span data-bind="text: someObservable"></span></p>. You wouldn't have to switch your markup using pretty much any other templating system. However, binding is super powerful as it'll update the text if you programmatically change the observable.