Aurelia - Tools

In this chapter we will show you how to set up and use aurelia-tools.

Step 1 - Root Folder

Let's create root folder where we will keep all Aurelia apps.

C:\Users\username\Desktop>mkdir aurelia-projects

Step 2 - Aurelia Tools

Inside aurelia-projects folder we will clone aurelia-tools repository from github.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects>git clone https://github.com/aurelia/tools.git

Step 3 - Create New Project

When you want to start new Aurelia project, the recommended way is to use one of the aurelia-skeletons. Let's clone Aurelia skeletons from git.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects>git clone https://github.com/aurelia/skeleton-navigation.git

We also need to install packages, modules and dependencies. You can choose between various skeleton apps. We will use skeleton-es2016.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects\skeleton-navigation\skeleton-es2016>npm install

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects\skeleton-navigation\skeleton-es2016>jspm install

And finally we need to run the following code to build development environment.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects\skeleton-navigation\skeleton-es2016>gulp build-dev-env

Step 4A - Update

If you want to update local repositories, you can run the following command.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects\skeleton-navigation\skeleton-es2016>gulp update-own-deps

Step 4B - Pull

You can also pull Aurelia dependency without building.

C:\Users\username\Desktop\aurelia-projects\skeleton-navigation\skeleton-es2016>gulp pull-