generator-aurelia-vs2015 v0.1.6

Deprecated

Aurelia supports visual studio with out of the box templates.

This generator is no longer needed.

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generator-aurelia-vs2015

Aurelia + ASP.NET 5 + Visual Studio 2015

A Yeoman generator
... for adding the Aurelia skeleton
... to a Visual Studio 2015 ASP.NET 5 project.

This generator pulls the standard skeleton from the Aurelia repo and tweaks a couple paths to work inside the new asp.net 5 project structure.

The generator is known to work with the Aurelia skeleton v0.18.x.

Getting Started

Install generator-aurelia-vs2015 from npm:

1. Install pre-requisites below. See the aurelia getting started guide for details.
2. Run npm install -g generator-aurelia-vs2015

To initiate the generator

1. Create a new ASP.NET 5 site in Visual Studio

• Empty, Web API, or Web Application.

2. Change to the project's root directory

• This should be a directory under the solution root, inside the "src" folder.
• Example,
  ... for a solution name "MySolution"
  ... created at c:\temp,
  ... with a project name of "MyApp",
  ... the project's root directory would be at c:\temp\MySolution\src\MyApp.

3. Run yo aurelia-vs2015

• Select which version of Visual Studio has a C++ compiler installed.
• Wait for generator to finish.

6. Gulp watch.
7. Open http://localhost:9000/ in your browser to see the site.

Pre-Requisites

• node.js & npm
  • Tested with node v0.12.7
  • Seems to be some issues with node 4.x
• Yeoman
  • npm install -g yeoman
• gulp
  • npm install -g gulp
• jspm - JavaScript Package Manager
  • npm install -g jspm
  • Configure jspm to use your github account to work around rate limits. jspm registry config github

Suggested Pre-Requisites

The project will mostly work without building socket.io, but the npm install phase of the generator may show errors.

• node-gyp
  • npm install -g node-gyp
  • Needed to build socket.io.
• Python v2.x
  • Needed for node-gyp to build socket.io.
  • Tested with Python 2.7.10.
  • 3.X does not work at this time.
• Visual Studio C++ compiler
  • Some version of VS with the C++ compiler. Needed for node-gyp to build socket.io.
  • Express editions should work too.

License

MIT