If you are new to Aurelia or perhaps already building something with it, here are some tips and tricks I have learned over the last two years which have helped me write well-performing Aurelia applications. Keep in mind that Aurelia is like any other framework or library and that it is very easy to write … →

Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room, if you’re a reader of my blog then you would know that I am a huge Aurelia fan and user. I’ve been working with Aurelia since February 2015, so 3.5 years now (wow). I am on the Aurelia core team, I have contributed to the community through plugins/skeletons, … →

As many of you know, I love working with Aurelia and I love working with Firebase. I have been combining both of these together to create personal projects for a while now. Newly introduced server-side rendering also strengthens my toolbelt with the ability to quickly spin up new Aurelia applications without having to worry about … →

One of my favourite Aurelia changes isn’t a new feature, nor is it a long-awaited bug fix or new tool: it’s the fact the CLI now supports Webpack by default. Why is this a big deal? Previously, the CLI took a RequireJS first approach to bootstrapping new applications, meaning if you didn’t choose to customise … →

I have been asked this question a few times and it can be hard to see things from the perspective of a newcomer to Aurelia, given how long I have been working with it. What is obvious to me is not obvious to everyone else. When you’re deciding to build an Aurelia application, you’ll discover … →

When you are building an Aurelia plugin and you want to test it, you will want to use npm link or yarn link to create a local symbolic link to your module and then use it in a test application. If you are working with Aurelia and Webpack, then you’ve probably run into an issue … →

Did you know Aurelia introduced an else attribute a while ago which allows you to do if/else statements in your views complete with support for animation? If you have been working with Aurelia for more than a few months, then you probably have been working with if/else statements by using multiple if.bind attributes in your … →

I have been waiting for this day to come for a long time now: the Aurelia CLI now supports scaffolding Webpack applications from scratch. My biggest gripe with the skeletons the Aurelia team provide is they have a lot of stuff in them I have to remove for every new project. Admittedly, the skeletons serve … →