8

I'd like to ask whether the Aurelia JS framework can be used as replacement for i.e. Ionic in hybrid app development. I have seen some tries, how to integrate with Cordova, but from their pages it is not really clear how it should be done.

Zveratko
  • 2,663
  • 6
  • 35
  • 64
  • 1
    Cordova embeds a browser that can run JavaScript, Aurelia is a JavaScript framework. What special integration do you expect? – jgillich Oct 12 '15 at 05:16
  • 1
    Add least some blueprint how to do it. They are saying it can be used for mobile dev, but I have found no article abou it. From [this](https://medium.com/@jetstreamin/running-aurelia-on-cordova-350f8f5d15fc) I am none the wiser. – Zveratko Oct 12 '15 at 05:20

2 Answers2

9

You can just use Aurelia on Cordova as you would in a regular browser. That's basically what your linked article tries to tell. Get started with Aurelia and host it in Cordova. But this does not solve what you might expect as a replacement for Ionic. Basically you would have to build this layer of abstraction yourself or use another UI framework that suits your needs.

@EisenbergEffect talked in comments about the "secret" project named Aurelia Interface that will probably be the replacement (Aurelia + Cordova) for Ionic (Angular + Cordova). But currently not too much is available in the wild about this.

http://blog.durandal.io/2015/09/05/aurelia-early-september-release-notes/#comment-2242530528

https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect/status/627163846709526529

devployment
  • 2,121
  • 1
  • 22
  • 33
  • 2
    There's some new info on Aurelia Interface on their blog at http://blog.durandal.io/2015/11/20/aurelia-beta-week-day-5-aurelia-interface/ – Ixonal Nov 30 '15 at 17:33
  • 1
    Latest news about this! http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/aurelia-interface-update/ – Pierre Jul 15 '16 at 13:38
  • 2
    As of 4 Nov 2016, Aurelia Interface is no more. It will be replaced by Aurelia UX, see: http://blog.aurelia.io/2016/11/04/introducing-aurelia-ux/ – Mr. Smith Nov 08 '16 at 15:33
4

There is also Framework7 (https://framework7.io/) which is agnostic to which JS framework you use. You can find a small example here: http://www.jujens.eu/posts/en/2016/Mar/15/ionic2-aurelia-f7/ which also compares what would be like writing the same app with Ionic2 vs Aurelia + Framework7. I hope it helps.

Damiano Fusco
  • 215
  • 3
  • 6