I use the require.js text plugin: http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#text. Once you have the template text, you can then append it to the page in a new script tag (with a type that is text/html
or something other than javascript).
I have been actually using a modified template engine that handles strings directly, so that I don't need to append extra script tags to the page.
My code looks something like:
this.activate = function() {
//load view model from the server
if (!this.loaded) {
require(["modules/" + name, "text!../templates/" + self.template + ".html"], function(Module, template) {
ko.templates[self.template] = template;
self.data(typeof Module === "function" ? new Module() : Module);
self.loaded = true;
});
}
};
The stringTemplateEngine that I use looks like: https://github.com/rniemeyer/SamplePresentation/blob/master/js/stringTemplateEngine.js