Binding custom behaviors to our application

Let's continue with our Aurelia special features exploration. In the last section, we saw value-converters, and it's impossible to not make a relationship between this feature and the binding engine of Aurelia framework. Maybe you think that both features have much in common, well, not so much really. Let's start explaining how the binding engine works.

The view resources in Aurelia framework can be divided into four categories:

  • Value converters
  • Custom attributes
  • Custom elements
  • Binding behaviors

We will focus only on the last one. It's not because the others are less important but because it will be better for us to understand how this works first and then explore the other categories. Don't ...

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