Getting Started - WrapBootstrap Template Question

Help Requests
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I’m just getting started with Aurelia. Actually, I haven’t even decided whether I want to use Aurelia or Angular 5.

I purchased a WrapBootstrap template I really like (SmartAdmin). It comes with like half-a-dozen different seed projects. Among them are a jQuery/Ajax version (implemented as a SPA), a pure HTML version and versions for some of the other frameworks (Angular, React, etc.) Unfortunately there is not an Aurelia version.

I may be way ahead of myself but my question is, if I want to start shoehorning Aurelia into this template, which version of the template would be best to start with? Pure HTML? The jQuery version?

Thanks!

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You don’t shoehorn Aurelia… It’ll bend however you like.
if there is vue variant - it’ll be the closest to Aurelia.
react - won’t fit
jquery probably too much the other way

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I think jQuery version probably contains the least amount of code, maybe a good thing to disable / enable stuff to wire thing together quickly.

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I was mostly thinking that jquery variant is furthest from component way.
So it’d be harder to transform it to component-based app

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I recommend Aurelia-bootstrap. It removes the dependency on jquery and the need for the JavaScript that comes with Bootstrap. It also makes using the various Bootstrap components more Aurelia-friendly. It is missing a few Bootstrap components, but not many.

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I’d start with pure HTML and put the necessary JS code, even if it invokes jQuery or whatsoever, into the attached() handler of my components. Of course there will be a decent amount of manual massaging required, but it basically works.