The can-view-modifiers plugin is deprecated

Use jQuery modifiers to render views

The can/view/modifiers plugin extends the jQuery view modifiers

• jQuery.fn.after
• jQuery.fn.append
• jQuery.fn.before
• jQuery.fn.html
• jQuery.fn.prepend
• jQuery.fn.replaceWith
• jQuery.fn.text

to render a can.view. When rendering a view you call the view modifier the same way as can.view with the view name or id as the first, the data as the second and the optional success callback (to load the view asynchronously) as the third parameter. For example, you can render a template from todo/todos.ejs looking like this:

<% for(var i = 0; i < this.length; i++ ){ %>
  <li><%= this[i].name %></li>
<% } %>

By calling the [can.prototype.jQuery.fn.html html] modifier on the #todos element like this:

can.$('#todos').html('todo/todos.ejs', [
    { name : 'First Todo' },
    { name : 'Second Todo' }
]);

Note: You always have to provide the data (second) argument to render a view, otherwise the standard jQuery modifier will be used. If you have no data to render pass an empty object:

$('#todos').html('todo/todos.ejs', {});
// Render todo/todos.ejs wit no data

Additionally it is also possible to pass a [can.Deferred] as a single parameter to any view modifier. Once the deferred resolves the result will be rendered using that modifier. This can be used to easily request and render static content. The following example inserts the content of content/info.html after the #todos element:

can.$('#todos').after(can.ajax({
	url : 'content/info.html'
}));

For API details, see src/can-view-modifiers.js

With StealJS, you can import this module directly in a template that is autorendered:

import plugin from 'can-view-modifiers';

Use require to load can-view-modifiers and everything else needed to create a template that uses can-view-modifiers:

var plugin = require("can-view-modifiers");

Configure the can and jquery paths and the can-view-modifiers package:

<script src="require.js"></script>
<script>
	require.config({
	    paths: {
	        "jquery": "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery",
	        "can": "node_modules/canjs/dist/amd/can"
	    },
	    packages: [{
		    	name: 'can-view-modifiers',
		    	location: 'node_modules/can-view-modifiers/dist/amd',
		    	main: 'lib/can-view-modifiers'
	    }]
	});
	require(["main-amd"], function(){});
</script>

Load the global version of the plugin:

<script src='./node_modules/can-view-modifiers/dist/global/can-view-modifiers.js'></script>

To make a build of the distributables into dist/ in the cloned repository run

npm install
node build

Tests can run in the browser by opening a webserver and visiting the test.html page. Automated tests that run the tests from the command line in Firefox can be run with

npm test