Aurelia 2 scaffolding skeleton

The scaffolding repo for Aurelia 2 used by the makes tool to create new Aurelia 2 projects.

Create an Aurelia 2 project

First, ensure that you have Node.js v14 or above installed on your system. Next, using npx, a tool distributed as part of Node.js, we'll create a new Aurelia 2 app. At a command prompt, run the following command:

npx makes aurelia

This will cause npx to download the makes tool, along with the aurelia scaffold from this repo, which it will use to guide you through creating your project.

Presets and samples

Use the preset picker to quickly choose a profile, including Lean Modern Frontend (TypeScript + Vite + Tailwind + Vitest + Storybook). When picking sample code, you can select Blank app for a clean, empty app shell (no demo markup) or use the minimal/router samples as before.

When customizing an application project, you can also skip the local dev server setup. This keeps the scaffold focused on production builds and omits npm start plus bundler-specific dev server configuration where that server is separable.

Plugin projects (Vite + Webpack)

Plugin templates support Vite or Webpack. The Vite plugin build uses Vite's library mode (Rollup under the hood) and injects component CSS into the JS bundle so consumers don't need to import a separate CSS file. The dev-app still runs on the selected bundler for local testing.

Development

There are some tests for this skeleton, setup in package.json. (totally not required by makes)

Unit tests

Unit tests for various "makes" files.

npm test

E2E Test

E2E tests for skeletons.

GitHub Actions runs a subset of them for every PR or push to master.

# Do not run following directly. There are too many skeletons.
npm run test:e2e

Always target a subset of skeletons, use env variable TARGET_FEATURES.

# only test skeletons using webpack and typescript features.
npx cross-env TARGET_FEATURES=webpack,typescript npm run test:e2e

Local development

If you forked this repo, you can try your skeleton with:

# Try your master branch if your forked name is "new"
npx makes your_GitHub_name
# Try some branch or commit or tag
npx makes your_GitHub_name/forked_repo_name#some-branch

License

MIT.