Can't get ace editor with ASP.NET hot towel spa template to work

Question

I'm new to web development, so please have mercy :) I've created a new ASP.NET project with the hot towel template (http://nuget.org/packages/HotTowel/) and added

<script src="http://d1n0x3qji82z53.cloudfront.net/src-min-noconflict/ace.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

to index.cshtml. Also, I modified home.html to look like this:

<section>
    <div id="editor">
        function foo(items) {
            var x = "All this is syntax highlighted";
            return x;
        }
    </div>
</section>

At last, I changed home.js:

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

    var editor = ace.edit("editor");
    editor.setTheme("ace/theme/monokai");
    editor.getSession().setMode("ace/mode/javascript");

    return vm;

    //#region Internal Methods
    function activate() {
        logger.log('Home View Activated', null, 'home', true);
        return true;
    }
    //#endregion
});

When I run the application, Chrome tells me that ace.js has an Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'env' of null. Of course, the home screen won't show up. What should I do to make it work?

Answer 1

looks like var editor = ace.edit("editor"); line runs before <div id="editor"> is created, make sure home.js script is included after <div id="editor"> or is activated after document.onload event