Durandal: Showing a 'LOADING…' during composition

Question

I can easily show a loading message while the activate method is doing its thing like so:

        

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Answer 1

This sounds to me like a scenario where a custom transition may be useful. When the composition mechanism switches nodes in and out of the DOM, it can use a transition.

This page, under Additional Settings>Transition (about halfway down) describes a custom transition: http://durandaljs.com/documentation/Using-Composition/