Practical App Development with Aurelia: Leverage the Power of Aurelia to Build Personal and Business Applications

© Matthew Duffield 2018

Matthew DuffieldPractical App Development with Aurelia https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3402-0_2

2. Getting Set Up

Matthew Duffield¹ 

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West Linn, Oregon, USA

 

Getting started in Aurelia gives you a lot of freedom. There are a lot of different approaches you can take to setting up your environment just the way you like. This is one of the biggest attractions to Aurelia: it is very unobtrusive.

Build Options

Let’s take a look at several different options you have with regard to getting your environment set up using Aurelia:

• Aurelia CLI

• Webpack

• JSPM

Each of these options provides you with building and bundling your application. Aurelia CLI is by far the newest one and is constantly being updated with new features. Webpack is ...