Chapter 1, Getting Started, walks you through the basic concepts around Aurelia, and explains how to set up your environment and start a project.

Chapter 2, Layout, Menu, and Getting Familiar, goes further into the concepts at the core of Aurelia, such as dependency injection, logging, and the plugin system. It also explains how to create the main layout and navigation menu of a multi-paged application.

Chapter 3, Displaying Data, guides you through the templating and data-binding system, so you can build complex views.

Chapter 4, Forms, and How to Validate Them, builds on the previous chapter by showing how to build rich forms and how to use Aurelia’s flexible and powerful validation mechanism. It also explores different edition models, such as inline edition or dialog-based edition.

Chapter 5, Making Reusable Components, shows you how to build reusable Aurelia components, such as custom HTML elements and attributes. It also explains how to leverage some cutting edge Web Standards supported by Aurelia, such as the Shadow DOM and content projection.

Chapter 6, Design Concerns – Organizing and Decoupling, walks you through different ways to organize and structure an Aurelia application. It also discusses various techniques to manage communication between decoupled components.

Chapter 7, Test All the Things, teaches you how to write and run automated tests for an Aurelia application, with both unit and end-to-end tests.

Chapter 8, Internationalization, shows you how to internationalize texts and the format of various data types, such as dates and numbers.

Chapter 9, Animations, teaches you how to animate view transitions using CSS, and introduces the general animation API, so you can use richer animation plugins.

Chapter 10, Bundling for Production, shows you how to optimize for production by packaging your application in one or multiple bundles.

Chapter 11, Integrating with Other Libraries, gives examples of how you can integrate various UI libraries into your application, such as Bootstrap widgets, jQuery UI, D3, and Polymer components.

Appendix A, Using JSPM, shows you how to develop, build, and bundle an Aurelia application using SystemJS and JSPM.

Appendix B, Using Webpack, shows you how to develop, build, and bundle an Aurelia application using Webpack.

For maximum enjoyment, you will need a PC/laptop running Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X, an Internet connection, and a modern browser. All the code samples were developed and tested using Google Chrome; as such, it is the recommended browser.

All software mentioned in this book is free of charge and can be downloaded from the Internet.

This book is for all developers, either keen to learn to build single-page applications using Aurelia, or simply curious about the framework. Some knowledge of JavaScript is ideal to follow the book; however, if you’re new to JS, you’ll pick up most of the basics along the way.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "As such, in the aurelia_project/aurelia.json file, in the build section, under bundles, let's add the following entries to the dependencies of the bundle named vendor-bundle.js:"

A block of code is set as follows:

{ 
  "name": "aurelia-i18n", 
  "path": "../node_modules/aurelia-i18n/dist/amd", 
  "main": "aurelia-i18n" 
}, 
{ 
  "name": "i18next", 
  "path": "../node_modules/i18next/dist/umd", 
  "main": "i18next" 
}, 
{ 
  "name": "i18next-xhr-backend", 
  "path": "../node_modules/i18next-xhr-backend/dist/umd", 
  "main": "i18nextXHRBackend" 
},

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<template> 
  <h1 t="404.title"></h1> 
  <p t="404.explanation"></p> 
</template>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

> npm install aurelia-i18n i18next --save

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "At this point, if you run the application, click the New button and, for example, put gibberish in the Birthday textbox then try to save."

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