Awesomeee! 
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An example of something I am looking to automate next. This demonstrates going from an empty folder to an Aurelia .NET Core MVC project compiled into a docker image and running in a container in 5 minutes.
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Is it an open source project?
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@HamedFathi
It is not and never will be commercial project. I have not posted the source as yet because I change things so quickly and fundamentally that it does not make sense to do so. At some stage I will.
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One thing that I found that takes the most time when bootstrapping a new project is the mapping of databases to models and forwarding them to the frontend app.
So a bit more food for thought. Since youāre mentioning docker, it would actually be a pretty awesome experience being able to preconfigure the instance with something like PostgresQL and Hasura or being more conservative with Mysql/PostgresQL + Entity Framework. Iām not sure what the current state of the art is but I hope you get the point.
Now with all that in place we have the first step to come to the frontend part. Over here there could be a few possible ways to go. Letās go first the REST route:
- Automatically generate model interfaces (obviously for TS)
- Scaffold a service class for CRUD requests with aurelia-fetch-client + revivers
With that in place, starting new apps would become extremely fast since lots of boilerplate is reduced, and with docker one would get the whole environment shipped as well.
EDIT:
Btw looking at your videos I have to admit that coding this way starts to become cheating as so much is premade out of the box 
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So far the Visual Studio extension and templates I have posted have the intention of getting up and running as quickly and easily as possible. Scaffolding from data is something I am definitely looking at, though there are a couple of other things first.
What tools like this attempt to do is enable all developers (experienced and novice alike) to get to a certain stage with little or no fuss. For the experienced developer it helps by cutting out configuration and boilerplate, for those less experienced they can get to the same place quickly and begin the process of learning.
I do not believe that there is any such thing as cheating, just an attempt at improved productivity, removal of tedium and a kick-start for those wishing to learn. 
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Dont get me wrong this was meant in a very positive way. Great work
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Itās fine, no problem.
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This is really goodā¦ I played with it in VS2019 however cant seem to get the drop down menus workingā¦ (wanted to see if you could have multiple levels of menus - as I need them). I am a beginner here so its harder to find context etc. I note that I have to change to ā¦/App to get the menus to show for the Aurelia app and that the top menu is spun out from VSā¦ - two menusā¦ Is it possible to just have the nav menu from the Aurelia app show at the top where the VS menu is as defaultā¦ I suspect this is low on the agenda but it would make it easier to spin out a website etc with just the pages in the SRCā¦
Anyway from what I have seen its excellent.
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WOW, just awesome 
Do you know how could we make one like this for Visual Studio for Mac?
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The navigation renderer should be as simple as adding to a page. Check the videos above it has examples of multi-level also, you just create a folder with the same name as a page and everything created inside that folder is parsed and rendered as a child.
If there is any error of problem please report it back and I can take a look, but it should be as simple as in the videos above.
Also, check this for the case sensitive route issue:
I am awaiting info on this unfortunate limitation in Aurelia.
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I will take a look but my immediate understanding his that this will be not a simple task. Of course it may be possible but I think it would be a new development rather than a making compatibility changes. I have very little Mac experience and none in Mac VS.
There is an undisclosed tool that will help with site generation in development, but IDE context menus for VS Mac are a different thing altogether.
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Itās quite cool - it has forced me to have a closer look to the various configuration files to understand how it is working (the webpack middleware compiling the project to the dist folder using the aurelia-webpack-plugin using the webpack.config.jsā¦) . I have setted up unit test with jest (I get tsc compile errors till i find the TypeScriptCompileBlocked option in the csproj and a message from the blog teaching how to set a specific tsconfig for the ts-loader un webpack) but unfortunatly there is no jest test plugin for VS, I think it could be nice to have a try with jasmine / chutzpa or to build one using the chutzpa code, did you already have a try with this ?
Thanks for your work!
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Can you post a git repo that show this? I am not clear on what the issue is.
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