Aurelia DotNet Tooling

Official .NET tooling for Aurelia.

Using the .NET Extension DLL

Cli generation

Generate Aurelia CLI project with any options provided and place in the project directory of the .NET Core application

Place the following in the ConfigureServices Method in startup.cs

// In production, the Aurelia files will be served from this directory
services.AddSpaStaticFiles(configuration =>
{
    configuration.RootPath = "%aurelia-root%/dist";
});

Place the following in the configure method in Startup.cs

app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseSpaStaticFiles();
app.UseSpa(spa => {
    spa.Options.SourcePath = "%replaceWithAureliaCLIRoot%";

    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        spa.UseAureliaCliServer(); // Optional HMR (Hot Module Reload)
    }
});

TODOS

Language Service

• VScode plugin
• Language Server/Client

Visual Studio

• Project Templates utilizing dotnet new behind the scenes
• Item Templates utilizing CLI

CLI Updates

• Unattended mode to help with generation of projects and usage of VsCode command pallete

Templates - To be hosted on nuget (All options have default CLI appended for generation eg. SCSS/Webpack/Etc.)

• dotnet new aurelia - Api based no security quick start
• dotnet new aurelia-mvc - Usage of MVC views and integration of Aurelia
• dotnet new aurelia-secure - Add token based authentication and dashboard to manage. All built with Aurelia
• dotnet new aurelia-ssr - Generate a dotnet template that will use the embedded node process to render the Aurelia application

Scaffolding

• Reverse engineer API endpoints and generate corresponding aurelia views based on the models