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by em-bee 1042 days ago
how is the transition from aurelia 1 to 2?

my app has actually very little aurelia specific code so i expect this should not be to hard. if only i can find an aurelia 2 equivalent of this version that works without any build system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971080
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DigitalSea 1042 days ago
The syntax and overall paradigm of Aurelia 2 is the same. The team avoided where possible a repeat of what Angular did to the community with the transition to Angular 2. Most notable differences are routing and dynamic composition.

There is a build system free version documented here. Is this what you mean? https://docs.aurelia.io/developer-guides/cheat-sheet#script-...

If you need any help porting it over, just let me know.

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em-bee 1042 days ago
that looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to work.

https://unpkg.com/aurelia/dist/native-modules/index.js doesn't resolve. i tried https://unpkg.com/aurelia/dist/native-modules/index.mjs which does resolve, but it links to a dozen other files which all don't seem to resolve either. it looks like unpkg.com is rather broken.

with aurelia 1 there was a downloadable archive (which still exists) that had everything bundled that i could just unpack and it was ready to run. it didn't even need a server to host the files if i was running a browser on the same machine.

the original documentation for that is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20160903072827/http://aurelia.io/...

basically there are two things i am looking for:

i want to be able to develop the application without using browser-sync or build steps and it appears the version you linked promises that.

but i also want to be able to host and develop the application completely offline without any need for internet access.

the reason for that is that i am using the application (in production as it were) while i am developing new features or fix bugs that i discover while using it.

running the transpiler in the browser doesn't bother me, it's been fast enough so far.

i would use aurelia-cli if i could figure out how to make it build a development version without browser-sync and without transpiling and compressing the code before it is deployed.

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