Call Function on View Loaded (Activate) in Hot Towel/Durandal Single Page App

Question

I'm using the Hot Towel SPA project I'm trying to call a simple js function when a view is activated. What I'm seeing is that the item does not seem to be loaded when the activate function is called.

I've also tried putting the code in an initialize function called by activate as suggested on other SO posts. This does not seem to help.

So what is the recommended method in Durandal/HotTowel for calling a function on view load?

home.js (view model)

define(['services/logger'], function (logger) {
    var vm = {
        activate: activate,
        title: 'Home'
    };

    return vm;

    function activate() {       
        logger.log('Home View Activated', null, 'home', true);
        return init();
    }

    function init() {
        $("#backBtn").hide();
        console.log($("#myBtn").html()); // returns undefined 
    }
});

home.html (view)

<section>  
  <div id="myBtn">test</div>
</section>

Answer 1

According to the latest Durandal docs at Interacting with the DOM, viewAttached renamed to attached, so you code using Durandal 2 will be the following:

define(['services/logger'], function (logger) {
var vm = {
    activate: activate,
    attached: attached
    title: 'Home'
};

return vm;

function activate() {       
    logger.log('Home View Activated', null, 'home', true);
}

function attached(view, parent) {
    $(view).find("#backBtn").hide();
    console.log($(view).find("#myBtn").html()); 
}
});