aurelia-ts-port

a spike to attempt to port aurelia code into typescript

The process is to take the ES6 Aurelia source code, maintain a local copy here for comparison when porting across new code changes: aurelia repo source code

Using the source from above, the next step in the process is to create equivalent, matching typescript source code by copying .js files and renaming them .ts extension, making small edits to make the typescript compiler happy, and as an added bonus, adding typescript type annotations for the public api: aurelia repo typescript-converted source code

The (gulp-based) build process then compiles the typescript aurelia source code, creating the .d.ts files that consist of only the type definitions. In addition, the .js files in ES6 format are created also. These files can hopefully be used by babel compiler to produce ES6 modules in register format. build output

clone and build

1. clone this repo
2. run git bash shell, change to the main folder
3. change to aurelia-ts folder
4. run npm install
5. change to node_modules/typescript folder
6. run npm install
7. run npm install -g jake (if you haven't already)
8. run jake local
9. run jake LKG
10. change back to aurelia-ts folder
11. run gulp build

you should now see folders in the output-gulp folder. each of these folders should contain .d.ts and .js files from the build.

process steps - to add aurelia repos (or add new files):

1. run ./get-latest.sh

   this is a git bash script to help keep the aurelia-latest up to date

2. clones aurelia repos into aurelia-latest-repos

3. copies src folder from each repo into corresponding folder in aurelia-latest

4. manually copy .js files from aurelia-latest into aurelia-ts (rename each to .ts)

5. update gulpfile.js

6. if it is a new repo, add the .d.ts file in output-gulp