aurelia-ace-editor

Note: This plugin is still in development.

The aurelia-ace-editor is a custom element for Aurelia application. Which allows you easily embed an ace editor to your application.

How to use

Installation

Install the package into your project using JSPM.

jspm install github:abalmus/aurelia-ace-editor

Register it as a plugin with aurelia.

aurelia.use.plugin('abalmus/aurelia-ace-editor')

Usage

With binding behaviour

<ace content.bind="aceContent" options.bind="aceOptions"></ace>

Static config and content

<ace config-theme="ace/theme/eclipse"
     config-mode="ace/mode/json">
    {
        "menu": {
            "id": "file",
            "value": "File",
            "popup": {
                "menuitem": [
                    {"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"},
                    {"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"},
                    {"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"}
                ]
            }
        }
    }
</ace>

Setting options dynamically

You could also dynamically change some options by getting the current instance of the ace editor. You have two options for that:

1. Using reference to the ace element and au property:

view:

<ace ref="aceEditor" content.bind="aceContent"></ace>

model:

let editor = this.aceEditor.au.ace.viewModel.editor;
editor.getSession().setMode('ace/mode/javascript');

2. Using bindable property:

view:

<ace editor.bind="aceEditor" content.bind="aceContent"></ace>

model:

this.aceEditor.getSession().setMode('ace/mode/javascript');

Building The Code

To build the code, follow these steps.

1. Ensure that NodeJS is installed. This provides the platform on which the build tooling runs.
2. From the project folder, execute the following command:

npm install

3. Ensure that Gulp is installed. If you need to install it, use the following command:

npm install -g gulp

4. To build the code, you can now run:

gulp build

5. You will find the compiled code in the dist folder, available in three module formats: AMD, CommonJS and ES6.

6. See gulpfile.js for other tasks related to generating the docs and linting.

Running The Tests

To run the unit tests, first ensure that you have followed the steps above in order to install all dependencies and successfully build the library. Once you have done that, proceed with these additional steps:

1. Ensure that the Karma CLI is installed. If you need to install it, use the following command:

npm install -g karma-cli

2. Ensure that jspm is installed. If you need to install it, use the following commnand:

npm install -g jspm

3. Install the client-side dependencies with jspm:

jspm install

4. You can now run the tests with this command:

karma start