Durandal and ASP.NET MVC conventions

Question

I\'m currently evaluating Durandal for use in an enterprise ASP.NET MVC application.

However the default conventions used by Durandal

Answer 1

What we do (this is what I have seen Rob doing too:) is that to create folders inside the /App folder depending on the functional areas of the app. Then just create view and view model file inside these folders.

Trick is to have a "viewUrl" property in each view model to tell durandal which view to use. This way of structuring the application is useful for large projects where there are many views/view models ; avoids confusion when your project grows.

define(['durandal/app', 'durandal/system', 'plugins/router'],
    function (app, system, router) {
        var vm = {
            viewUrl: 'myfolder/myview.html',
        };
        return vm;
    }
);

You can still use viewLocator.useConvention(); when you bootstrap your application; durandal will still find the view as long as you have viewUrl property.