Aurelia Style Binding Command Plugin

• Extends SyntaxInterpreter of default Binding Language implementation with commands .style (same with .style-to-view, .style-one-way but shorter), .style-one-time, .style-two-way, .style-from-view to bind to a single css rule of an element.

Installation

• Install the dependency

npm install aurelia-style-binding-command-plugin

• Import the module for side effect (auto extension)

// app-entry.js
import 'aurelia-style-binding-command-plugin';

Development

Build the code

• After installing dependencies, run build

npm run build

Test the code

npm run test

How it works

• The .style-* binding commands instruct Aurelia to observe view model and assign new value to css property, like standard behavior of an Aurelia binding. .style-from-view and .style-two-way work via MutationObserver, that detects change on style attribute of observed element.

Possible extension

• Normal usage looks like this:

<div background-color.style='background'></div>

• The following syntax could be made to work:

<div style.background-color='background'></div>

The former is predictable, it follows the [attribute-name].[binding-command]=[expression] pattern that you see everywhere in an Aurelia application. The later is a more natural syntax for reading, as background-color is a property of style property of the element. If you think why it should be supported, please help file an issue.