I have been working with Aurelia and Node for a while now and recently I took the time to properly create an Aurelia Node.js starter skeleton and put it up on Github here. While getting Node.js to …

When inside of an Aurelia ViewModel there are situations where you might want to know what the current route is within a ViewModel. One such scenario I encountered recently where I had one View and …

In-case you hadn’t heard, the FBI is trying to compel Apple to assist them in cracking open an iPhone 5c used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino shooting that took placed back on …

Update: December 12th, 2016 A lot has changed since this article was published. The bundling situation is a lot better and things have changed. While some of this article might still be applicable, …

In Npm version 3 we finally got what we had been asking for the last few years: a flattened module structure for Node modules. Unfortunately as a result Npm has slowed to a crawl when installing or …

At the time of writing this, the preferred approach to client side dependencies and loading is Jspm which is one part package manager and one part SystemJS loader polyfill. Although, we will be seeing …

When it comes to GIT clients, you can’t really fault Sourcetree by Atlassian. It handles the basics of Git, allows you to visually merge/rebase your repositories, handle conflicts like a boss …

When it comes to the browser, queues are very important. The concept of a macrotask and microtask exist within the browser which allows standard tasks and micro tasks to be queued up. The Aurelia Task …

One of my favourite features of Aurelia is the ability to bind element styles. If you ever worked with Angular 1, then you would know you could bind not only classes but inline styles on an element as …

If you are a Netflix subscriber you have probably heard that Netflix recently announced they are going to be cracking down on customers using a VPN to access content outside of their own country. You …