2. About me
Stephen Lautier
~9 years experience – mainly web + game development
Full Stack Developer – C#, TypeScript and Web <3
Microsoft Stack – ASP.NET, WPF
SPA Frameworks – Durandal, Angular and Aurelia
Unity3D
Currently working in Central Teams “Team Atomic” – Sportsbook as a
Senior Frontend / Team Lead
3. Agenda
Overview
What is Aurelia?
Community
Consulting + Training
Features
Demos
Walkthrough app + explain
Live samples
4. Before we start…
Touching other Technologies
NodeJS/NPM (tooling)
Gulp – Task Runner
JSPM – Package Manage frontend (ala Bower)
SystemJS – Module Loader (ES6 Modules)
TypeScript 1.8.x (latest)
Machine Setup
Node v4 or higher
npm install –g typings gulp jspm
Using Visual Studio Code as my editor
5. What is Aurelia?
MV* framework
Build on modern web - ES6/ES7
Similar framework as Angular
Formerly known as DuranalJS
Knockout as templating
Author - Rob Eisenberg
Caliburn/Caliburn Micro – WPF/Silverlight MVVM framework
Durandal
Worked on Angular2
Modular libraries
Http-client/http-fetch, dependency injection, animation, validation, i18n
UI Toolkits – kendo, bootstrap, materialize etc…
Can be used with other frameworks or even NodeJS
Project Status: Beta1 (RC soon!)
6. Benefits
Clean and unobtrusive
Convention over Configuration
Integrates well with others
TypeScript Support
7. Community
Gitter
Aurelia - 3178 people + 233.3k msgs
Angular1 - 3672 people + 15.3k msgs
Angular2 - 3842 people + 106.3k msgs
Contributors
Aurelia 300 unique contributors
Angular 2 over 100 contributors
*As of March 2016 - According to Rob Eisenberg
Good Documentation
Doc - http://aurelia.io/docs.html
Skeleton projects to help you get started
Open Source
16. Value Converters
Value manipulation for formatting + converting back
Similar to “Filters” in Angular1 or “Pipes” in Angular2 e.g. date format
Similar to Value Converters within WPF :)
Declaration Usage