@logofx/aurelia-mvvm-plugin

This library contains a plugin that provides foundational MVVM types.

You can find an online demo and the documentation here, https://aurelia-mvvm-plugin.github.io.

What it does

The Aurelia framework provides two well-known approaches to create robust WEB applications, which are the component-oriented approach and the approach based on MVVM design pattern. Anyway, the Aurelia lacks implementation of some infrastructures for clean implementation of the MVVM pattern.

In order to facilitate Aurelia as MVVM framework, the plugin provides base types for implementation of application Models and View-Models. In addition the plugin contains implementation of the Window Manager, as a view-model service allowing to open modal (HTML) dialogs from a view-model in clean VM-First manner.

Consume Plugin

Install the plugin:

npm i @logofx/aurelia-mvvm-plugin

Then load the plugin in app's main.ts like this.

aurelia.use.plugin('@logofx/aurelia-mvvm-plugin');
// for webpack user, use PLATFORM.moduleName wrapper
aurelia.use.plugin(PLATFORM.moduleName('@logofx/aurelia-mvvm-plugin'));

Manage dependencies

If your application hasn't depended on those packages, please add them manually as your dependencies.

How to use the code

This Aurelia plugin project has a built-in dev app (with CLI built-in bundler and RequireJS) to simplify development.

1. The local src/ folder, is the source code for the plugin.
2. The local dev-app/ folder, is the code for the dev app, just like a normal app bootstrapped by aurelia-cli.
3. You can use normal au run and au test in development just like developing an app.
4. You can use aurelia-testing to test your plugin, just like developing an app.
5. To ensure compatibility to other apps, always use PLATFORM.moduleName() wrapper in files inside src/. You don't need to use the wrapper in dev-app/ folder as CLI built-in bundler supports module name without the wrapper.

Note aurelia-cli doesn't provide a plugin skeleton with Webpack setup (not yet), but this plugin can be consumed by any app using Webpack, or CLI built-in bundler, or jspm.

The usage of PLATFORM.moduleName wrapper is mandatory. It's needed for your plugin to be consumed by any app using webpack, CLI built-in bundler, or jspm.

Building the Code

Run au build-plugin. This will transpile all files from src/ folder to dist/native-modules/ and dist/commonjs/.

For example, src/index.ts will become dist/native-modules/index.js and dist/commonjs/index.js.

Note all other files in dev-app/ folder are for the dev app, they would not appear in the published npm package.

Run dev app

Change the current folder cd dev-app

Run au run, then open http://localhost:8080

To open browser automatically, do au run --open.

To change dev server port, do au run --port 9000.

To change dev server host, do au run --host 127.0.0.1

PS: You could mix all the flags as well, au run --host 127.0.0.1 --port 7070 --open

Unit tests

Run au test (or au jest).

To run in watch mode, au test --watch or au jest --watch.

Acknowledges

This project is bootstrapped by aurelia-cli.