aurelia-templating

Aurelia compose ViewModel-less


Trying to get the Aurelia compose ViewModel-less working and having some issues.

I was having problems in my project so to test I cloned the skeleton-typescript project. I created a test.html page within the src directory with the following contents <template><div>Hi I'm a test message</div></template>. Then, within the welcome.html page I added the following before the submit button <template><compose view="./test.html"></compose></template>.

It doesn't display so wondering if I'm doing something wrong (according to the docs this is how it's done) or is there an issue with aurelia's templating-resources?

I asked on Aurelia's Gitter channel but didn't get a reply and I don't want to raise an issue with the templating-resources in case it's something stupid I'm doing so thought I would ask here first.


Solution

  • It looks like you're almost there. With just a couple of tweaks, this should work. The steps required to add a dynamically composed view in Aurelia are as follows:

    Creating a dynamic view

    Create the HTML template. In this case you need to create your test.html template as shown in the below snippet.

    test.html

    <template> <div>Hi I'm a test message</div> </template>

    Compose the view into your parent component

    After you've created the view, you need to compose it into the parent component using the <compose> custom element provided by the Aurelia framework. In your case, you'll need to make the below alteration to your <welcome> view template:

    <template>
      <section class="au-animate">
        <h2>${heading}</h2>
        <form role="form" submit.delegate="submit()">
          <div class="form-group">
            <label for="fn">First Name</label>
            <input type="text" value.bind="firstName" class="form-control" 
                id="fn" placeholder="first name">
          </div>
          <div class="form-group">
            <label for="ln">Last Name</label>
            <input type="text" value.bind="lastName" class="form-control" id="ln" placeholder="last name">
          </div>
          <div class="form-group">
            <label>Full Name</label>
            <p class="help-block">${fullName | upper}</p>
          </div>
          <compose view="./test.html"></compose>
          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
        </form>
      </section>
    </template>

    After doing this, your view should include the new composed in HTML only custom element as shown in this screengrab.

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