Notifying directives about discussion

[bpierre]

Events version: http://jsfiddle.net/vhCr4/

I think this is what I will use for the moment.

[yyx990803]

Using events seems legit to me. For your first example, why did you have to use an object? Directly using a vm property seems ok too: http://jsfiddle.net/RbhLL/

[bpierre]

Thanks Evan. You’re right about using the VM property, but I didn’t want to directly manipulate the VM properties from my directive.

[yyx990803]

If the directive needs to somehow affect the state of the VM, then it doesn't matter if you do it directly or via events. If you think about it, all two-way bindings like v-model are manipulating the state of the vm as well. In most cases it's about what the directive is meant to do.

[bpierre]

True, what bothered me is that the name is hardcoded, but this.vm[this.key] could solve that if I’d really want to do it this way.