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The Event Aggregator is one of my favourite things about Aurelia and it is not even anything unique to Aurelia. There does not seem to be much info out there about it, probably due to its simplicity. …

Plain old CSS is boring. If you are building your applications off of the Aurelia Skeleton Navigation then it ships with support for working with regular CSS. Adding in support for working with Sass …

In Angular 1.x you had the concept of a controller, directive, service, provider and other confusing terms to describe essentially what is one or two things. What is an Angular service An Angular …

On a per route basis you might want to configure some additional route specific data that you can access in your view. For example a route might have an icon for your navigation menu. This actually …

Update March 2018: Two years on from the original publish date, Aurelia finally has support for server-side rendering. This means it is now possible to create isomorphic web applications in Aurelia …

If you are like me, you browse Github for cool new repositories. My new hobby is looking at what the community are building for rival frameworks and one of those frameworks is Angular 2. The Angular 2 …

In a single page application (SPA) like Aurelia, shared state is one of those important things every developer mostly encounters. Sharing the current state of a logged in user or sharing a shopping …

While the default Aurelia convention of a view model looks for a matching HTML file in the same directory is what you want a lot of the time, sometimes you might want to load views from a centralised …

When it comes to progressively enhancing an application we already have enhance API which allows us to progressively enhance a page on first load, but what about enhancing a page with dynamically …

Recently in my Aurelia application I needed to handle some keypress events when the user hit the enter and escape keys. Fortunately Aurelia doesn’t abstract Javascript too much, so adding in …