Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

Aurelia setup

The simplest way to set up a development environment is to use Aurelia's command-line interface, named aurelia-cli, which can be installed as follows:

npm install aurelia-cli -g

Once this has been installed, it can be invoked to create a new project as follows:

au new

This will take you through a simple set of questions, starting with the name of the base directory that you would like to use. The next question is whether to use ESNext or TypeScript as your development language, and the last question is whether or not to download all project dependencies. Selecting TypeScript and then Yes to download dependencies will take a few minutes to set up the default project structure. Once this is complete, a new directory will be created ...