The State of JS is a survey that has been running for a few years now, which surveys front-end developers and aims to find out what they’re using, what they love, what they’re interested in learning and what they’re not interested in knowing. The survey sounds good in theory, it gives you insight into the …
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How To Build Complex, Large-scale Aurelia Apps With Aurelia Store
If you’re new to state management or you’re familiar with it and not using Aurelia Store already (you should), today we are going to be looking at how you can integrate Aurelia Store into your Aurelia applications and make the life of your development team and yourself a lot less stressful. A lot of state …
Aurelia Tips & Tricks
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 …
Why I Prefer Aurelia Over Angular, React & Vue
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, …
Aurelia Firebase Server-side Rendering Skeleton Template
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 …
Aurelia CLI Is Now Webpack First
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 …
Aurelia: CLI versus Skeletons
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 …
Working With Linked Node Modules & Webpack In Aurelia
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 …
Computed Object Keys and Function Names In Javascript
For years, I wanted the ability to use variables as object keys in Javascript. Thanks to ES2015, we got the ability to have computed object keys from within the object definition itself. This isn’t a new or cutting-edge addition, we’ve had it in Javascript for a while now and it is well-supported. The reason for …
If/else In Aurelia Using The “else” Attribute
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 …
