What is aurelia?
Aurelia
Aurelia is a modern JavaScript MVVM Framework for building rich web applications
Aurelia - history
- Amazingly, Aurelia's history begins with Microsoft Silverlight
- Caliburn.Micro was (is?) an MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) composition framework for Silverlight and WPF applications
- Created by Rob Eisenberg
the sword - caliburn
Aurelia - history
- Durandal.js is an MVVM framework utilizing Knockout.js for observable pattern and two-way databinding
- Durandal provides helpful utilities like a router, promise and AJAX wrappers and compositors
- Built by Rob Eisenberg
The Sword - Durandal
Aurelia - history
- Rob joined the Angular 2.0 team for a few months
- His work is seen largely in the new Angular 2.0 router
- Had fundamental differences of opinion with Core Angular team, so he left to start really working on Aurelia
the sword - angular
Just kidding, there is no Angular Sword. But if there were...
Aurelia
- Originally called Durandal NG (next-gen), Aurelia is a modern JavaScript MVVM framework
- Two-way databinding without the use of Knockout.js
- Created by Rob Eisenberg
Disclaimer
why aurelia?
- Two-way databinding still works
- MVVM relevant for Rails, Spring, Angular devs
- Modular -> smaller, faster, better
- Outstanding documentation
why aurelia?
- Future focused (ES2015/2016, TypeScript)
- Convention over configuration
- Easy to learn and build quick apps
- Did I mention the documentation?
let's play a little...
Barebones collection of scripts and packages to get started from scratch with Aurelia
- Basic functioning application
- Router implemented
- Views/ViewModels implemented
- Basic starting point, eliminates need to build scaffolding/bootstrapper
Aurelia Provides...
- Router
- Bootstrapping
- Bundling (via JSPM)
- ES2015 classes
- Easy converters
- Templating
- Dependency Injection
- HTTP Services
- End-to-end Testing
- Really great documentation
