Can't wait for the next article. Getting knockout templates into their own files or, dare I suggest, into view engine templates for special cases, is pretty epic. Nice write-up, the more I see knockout, the more I think I'm in love :)

I honestly don't have mixed feeling about backbone (what a shock); embedding HTML in Javascript is a deal breaker for me. I don't like my concerns mixed that way, there are bound to be a lot of problems that crop up as a project matures in that kind of approach.

Looking forward to your post(s) on Knockout.js :)