[DigitalSea]

One of the exact reasons I've been working with Aurelia as my Javascript framework of choice since 2015. Aurelia 1 has served me well and I have apps that have been in production for eight years untouched. They just keep running without fail and they're so simple. Similarly, Aurelia 2 (currently in beta) is even better and as stable (same templating syntax, DI, etc). I tend to avoid all of the hype in the front-end space. The only thing clients and companies care about at the end of the day are results.

- Simple syntax

- Convention over configuration, but gives you the ability to configure it when you need too

- Standards compliance

- Has state management, routing, validation, Fetch client and translation packages

- Completely written in TypeScript, so everything is strongly typed

- Great docs

- HTML templating syntax is standards compliant, so everything looks similar to native HTML. None of this weird curly, banana in a box, square bracket and weird symbol nonsense that is not intuitive.

People always ask, "Why not React?", "Why not Vue?", "Why not Svelte?", etc. People think you need to use the most popular option like it's a popularity contest. I find it laughable to build a React application in 2023 you don't just `npm install react`, people tell you to use something like Next.js which is a framework built on React (the very thing developers tried arguing for years you didn't need to build apps and that libraries were enough). I can guarantee that most of the people in this comments section either tried Aurelia years ago when it was v1 or have never heard of it. Then you would have some that won't use it because it's not big or popular enough.

I can build an app using Aurelia faster than most developers could using React or any other convoluted framework or library. Even Vue used to be nice and basic, before Vue 3 where they decided they would become React Lite and introduce complexity in the way you build things because everyone bought into the myth everything has to be functions and classes are bad.

At the end of the day the safest strategy is to use what works for you and ignore everything else.

[stephenhuey]

2015 was when I used Aurelia, too. As someone who used the first version of Angular, it was a breath of fresh air, and I agree that you can get results quickly using Aurelia. I left that company so haven't been using it, but I've secretly hoped people would catch on and switch to it somewhere down the road. But as you say, it's fine that it's not popular--quite often, the best things are not the popular things.

[DigitalSea]

Sadly, Aurelia didn't quite catch on like other options. But, it's funny when you look at libraries like Svelte, many of their touted features like reactivity not only existed in Aurelia, but in Durandal before it. I think it comes with age. I'm in my mid-thirties now, so I just use what I want to use that gets results. But I remember being young and hungry as a developer in my twenties, you used what everyone else used because of job prospects.

I think Aurelia 2 still has the potential to make a comeback. Maybe not popular like React or Vue, but still. The beta has been quite good. It just needs more awareness.

[duringwork12]

I used to love knockout.js. this brought memories