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Makes building single-page applications easy and fun.
Aurelia in Action teaches you how to build fantastic single-page applications with the Aurelia framework. You’ll learn about modern design practices and a modular architecture based on web components, perfect for hybrid web + mobile apps.
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Part 1: Introduction to Aurelia
1. Introducing Aurelia
1.1. What is Aurelia
1.2. Why do I care?
1.2.1. How complicated are the applications we are trying to build?
1.2.2. How important are web standards compliance to the team?
1.2.3. What past development experience does the team have?
1.2.4. How is the team organized?
1.2.5. What kind of commercial and community support do you need?
1.3. What kind of projects make Aurelia shine?
1.3.1. Server-side application with a sprinkling of JavaScript
1.3.2. Client-side-rendered SPA
1.3.3. The hybrid approach: server side with SPA islands
1.3.4. Server-side-rendered SPA
1.3.5. So where does Aurelia sit?
1.3.6. What makes Aurelia different?
1.4. Who is this book for?
1.5. A tour of Aurelia
1.5.1. Binding
1.5.2. Handling DOM Events
1.5.3. Routing
1.5.4. Inside the ViewModel, and what's this about components?
1.5.5. The Aurelia component lifecycle
1.5.6. Loading data from an API
1.5.7. Dependency injection with Aurelia
1.5.8. Data-binding and view render
1.6. Summary
2. Building your first Aurelia application
2.1. Introducing my-books
2.2. Building Aurelia
2.2.1. Option 1 - Download the quick start
2.2.2. Option 2 - Skeleton application
2.2.3. Option 3 - Aurelia CLI
2.2.4. Creating the my-books project
2.3. One-way and two-way data-binding and event delegation
2.3.1. Adding the functionality inline
2.4. Creating components using Aurelia custom elements
2.5. Building services and retrieving data from a REST API
2.6. Maintaining Page State with the Aurelia Router
2.6.1. Configuring the Router
2.7. Moving Forward
2.8. my-books project status
2.9. Summary
Part 2: Exploring Aurelia
3. View resources, custom elements, and custom attributes
3.1. Understanding Aurelia’s templating primitives
3.1.1. Aurelia’s templating primitives
3.2. CSS resources
3.2.1. Setting up the project dependencies
3.2.2. Adding the CSS resources
3.2.3. Styling the my-books views
3.3. Custom elements
3.3.1. Custom element explained
3.3.2. My-books custom elements
3.3.3. HTML-only custom elements
3.4. Custom attributes
3.4.1. Creating a tooltip custom attribute
3.4.2. Single-value binding
3.4.3. Options binding
3.5. my-books project status
3.6. Summary
4. Aurelia templating and data binding
4.1. Templating conditionals
4.2. Repeaters
4.2.1. Aurelia repeater contextual properties
4.3. Data binding with Aurelia
4.3.1. Understanding how data-binding works
4.4. Binding commands
4.4.1. One-way bindings
4.4.2. String interpolation binding
4.4.3. Two-way bindings
4.4.4. One-time binding command
4.5. Handling DOM Events
4.5.1. Trigger
4.5.2. Delegate
4.6. my-books project status
4.7. Summary
5. Value converters and binding behaviors
5.1. Creating a value converter
5.2. Applying value converters to lists
5.2.1. Value converter composition
5.3. Binding behaviors
5.3.1. Throttle and debounce binding behaviors
5.3.2. UpdateTrigger binding behavior
5.3.3. Signal binding behavior
5.4. my-books project status
5.5. Summary
6. Inter-component communication
6.1. Aurelia components
6.1.1. The component lifecycle
6.2. Enhancing my-books
6.3. Enhancing my-books
6.3.1. Aurelia’s three core inter-component communication techniques
6.4. Passing data to child components with data-binding
6.5. Event Aggregator to the rescue
6.5.1. The Event Aggregator pattern
6.5.2. The Aurelia Event Aggregator
6.5.3. Fixing book removal with the Event Aggregator
6.6. Extending my-books
6.7. Custom Events
6.7.1. Browser support for Custom Events
6.7.2. Using Custom Events
6.7.3. Implementing the star-rating component
6.8. Summary
7. Working with forms
7.1. Working with forms in my-books
7.2. Check boxes
7.3. Radio elements
7.4. Selects
7.4.1. Single value select binding
7.4.2. Multiple value binding
7.5. Validation
7.5.1. The Aurelia validation plugin
7.5.2. Aurelia validation overview
7.5.3. Adding validation to the edit-books form
7.6. Summary
8. Working with HTTP
8.1. Overview of the Aurelia’s HTTP toolkit
8.2. Using the aurelia-fetch-client
8.2.1. Adding fetch to my-books
8.2.2. Intercepting and manipulating requests
8.3. Working with the aurelia-http-client
8.4. Summary
9. Routing
9.1. Understanding client-side routing
9.2. Introducing the Aurelia router
9.2.1. Basic configuration
9.2.2. Routing metadata
9.3. Passing route data to components
9.3.1. Route option types
9.3.2. Adding the user management pages
9.4. Specifying route modules dynamically
9.5. The screen activation life-cycle and route pipeline
9.5.1. The screen activation lifecycle
9.5.2. Pipeline steps
9.6. Aurelia’s 404
9.6.1. Handling an unknown route — option 1, module ID
9.6.2. Handling unknown routes — option 2, a function
9.7. Redirecting routes
9.8. View ports
9.9. Extending my-books with layouts
9.9.1. Creating the layouts
9.9.2. Adding the login view
9.9.3. Modifying the routing configuration
9.10. my-books project status
9.11. Summary
10. Authentication
10.1. Client-side authentication
10.1.1. Token-based authentication
10.1.2. Comparing cookie- and token-based authentication approaches
10.1.3. JWT format
10.2. Securing my-books
10.2.1. Authentication architecture
10.2.2. Creating the authentication service
10.2.3. Implementing login
10.2.4. Intercepting HTTP requests
10.2.5. Routing redirection
10.2.6. Filtering the navigation bar
10.3. my-books project status
10.4. Summary
11. Dynamic composition
11.1. Static versus dynamic composition
11.2. The <compose> custom element
11.3. Dynamically composed views
11.3.1. Creating partial views
11.3.2. Creating a configurable form with dynamic composition
11.4. Summary
12. Web components and Aurelia
12.1. Introduction to web components
12.2. HTML Imports
12.3. HTML templates
12.3.1. Using HTML Templates in Aurelia
12.4. Custom elements
12.5. The Shadow DOM
12.5.1. Vanilla Shadow DOM
12.5.2. Shadow DOM Slots
12.5.3. Using the Shadow DOM with Aurelia
12.6. Creating the my-books book-share component
12.6.1. Adding the sharing button
12.6.2. Create the ux-card component
12.6.3. Create the subcomponents
12.6.4. Create the book-card component
12.6.5. Tie it all together
12.7. my-books project status
12.8. Summary
13. Extending Aurelia
13.1. Overriding Aurelia’s default conventions
13.1.1. Specifying a view template relative path with @useView
13.1.2. Handling custom element views manually with @noView
13.1.3. Specifying views as template strings with @inlineView
13.1.4. Explicitly naming custom elements with @customElement
13.1.5. Explicitly naming custom attributes with @customAttribute
13.2. Creating an inspect custom binding behavior
13.3. Creating a Selectize.js custom attribute
13.4. my-books project status
13.5. Summary
14. Animation
14.1. Getting started with SPA animations
14.1.1. When and what should you animate?
14.1.2. CSS animations
14.1.3. JavaScript animations
14.2. Aurelia’s animation framework
14.2.1. The animation API
14.3. CSS animations with Aurelia
14.3.1. Adding transitions on au-enter
14.3.2. Adding transitions when classes are added or removed
14.4. Summary
Part 3: Aurelia in the Real World
15. Testing
15.1. Testing SPAs
15.2. Get started testing with the Aurelia CLI
15.2.1. Creating a hello world test
15.3. Testing value converters
15.4. Testing services
15.5. Testing custom elements
15.6. Testing custom attributes
15.7. End-to-end testing
15.7.1. Testing the login user stories
15.7.2. Running the tests
15.8. Summary
16. Deploying Aurelia applications
16.1. SPA bundling
16.1.1. What about HTTP/2?
16.2. Bundling and the Aurelia CLI
16.2.1. Versioning bundles
16.2.2. Splitting application bundles
16.3. Deploying my-books to Firebase
16.4. Summary
Appendixes
Appendix A: Installation & set up
A.1. Installing Node.js
A.2. Installing the Aurelia CLI tool
A.3. Troubleshooting
A.4. Adding Bootstrap and Fontawesome without a CDN
A.5. Installing the Aurelia validation plugin
A.6. Setting up my-books server
A.6.1. Installing MongoDB
A.6.2. Clone the my-books server repository
A.6.3. Start MongoDB server
A.6.4. Start MongoDB server
A.6.5. Install aurelia-http-client package
A.6.6. Enabling my-books-server JWT authentication
About the Technology
Try Aurelia, and you may not go back to your old web framework. Flexible and efficient, Aurelia enforces modern design practices and a modular architecture based on web components. It’s perfect for hybrid web + mobile apps, with hot features like dynamic routes, pluggable pipelines, and APIs for nearly every flavor of JavaScript.
About the book
Aurelia in Action teaches you how to build extraordinary web applications using the Aurelia framework. You’ll immediately take advantage of key elements like web components and decorators when you start to explore the book’s running example: a virtual bookshelf. As the app unfolds, you’ll dig into templating and data binding the Aurelia way. To complete the project, you’ll take on routing and HTTP, along with tuning, securing, and deploying your finished product.
What's inside
- Templating and data-binding
- Communication between components
- Server-side and SPA design techniques
- View composition
About the author
Sean Hunter is a web developer with nearly 10 years of experience. He’s extremely passionate about all things Aurelia and has been working with the framework in production since the early beta days. Sean got a taste for teaching developers how to get started with Aurelia while visiting user groups across the UK, and he’s been excited to expand on this teaching effort with this book. These days, Sean is working in a variety of web-development technologies with companies across Australia, and he blogs at https://sean-hunter.io.
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