Intro to Aurelia

Forward thinking Javascript client framework

$ whoami

• Software Dev @ RedEye
• PHP + JS
• Twitter @tomnewbyau
• PiggyBike - cycle to work, save money

http://piggy.bike/

Outline

• What is Aurelia (info/background)
• Getting started (examples & live coding)
• Extra resources

What is Aurelia

• Forward thinking Javascript client framework
• Big on future standards (ES7, W3C Templating Spec)
• Minimise framework specific code
• Convention over configuration

What is Aurelia

• Focused on developer experience
• Framework built from components
• MV*/VVM/MVVM
• Many similarities to WPF, Silverlight etc.

Who created it

• Rob Eisenberg & team of Durandal Inc.
• Rob worked on UI frameworks across web, WPF, Silverlight, worked on Angular 2.0 until split paths
• Aurelia is the product, developers are the customer
• 10-20 developers around the world who also build apps in Aurelia for their day jobs
• Aurelia consultants for hire
• More info (Github)

History & Future

• Introduced January 2015
• Beta November 2015
• v1 in the next few months, hopefully

Getting Started

• es2016 + (Gulp OR Webpack)
• Typescript + (Gulp OR Webpack)
• ASP.NET Kit with ES2016 OR Typescript

github.com/aurelia/skeleton-navigation

Choose your own adventure:

Live Coding

Resources

• Aurelia: aurelia.io
• Gitter: http://gitter.im/Aurelia/Discuss
• Durandal Blog: blog.durandal.io
• Aurelia For Real World - eBook (Brisbane author!): https://leanpub.com/aurelia-for-real-world-applications
• /r/aureliajs
• ilikekillnerds.com