Access a DOM element in Aurelia

Question

How would you go about accessing a DOM element in Aurelia? This is a broad and general question, but I have a feeling there are one or two preferred ways to do this. I have

Answer 1

Another option; if your view-model is exposed as a @customElement, its DOM element can be injected in the constructor:

@customElement
@inject(Element)
export class MyCustomElement {
    constrctor(element) {
        logger.info(element) // ==> 
    }
}