Looking at CQRS / ES for the first time, I thought: “Wait a minute…this seems like the command pattern evolved to something like redux for the backend? With read and write seperation…oh, now i have to learn DDD to grok it.” 
@xenoterracide
If I got it right, and all this state-management / store-stuff is new to You, I´d like to point to some articles, I come back to every once in a while. This articles are not aurelia-specific, but they´re all about handling state.