Horizon + Aurelia Sample

This is the common Horizon chat app ported to Aurelia.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have RethinkDB installed.

Install horizon

npm install -g horizon

Install aurelia-cli

npm install -g  aurelia-cli

Running the app

Install dependencies by running the npm install from the project root.

Run the following command to start Horizon & Aurelia in dev mode:

npm start

You should get a url in the console with the localhost URL to run the app.

Starting your own Horizon + Aurelia app

The following steps will help you get a project set up to start using Horizon & Aurelia together.

Create a new aurelia app. (We'll assume it is named app)

au new

Create a new horizon project

hz init hztemp

Move the .hz directory into aurelia's app folder.

mv hztemp/.hz app

You may also want to edit .hz/config.toml to change the name of your horizon app. Also, copy the contents of hztemp/.gitignore into your aurelia's .gitignore

Go to the aurelia root directory.

cd app

Install concurrently

npm install concurrently --save-dev

Edit package.json and add the start script.

"scripts": {
  "start": "concurrently \"hz serve --dev\" \"au run --watch\" "
}

Install @horizon/server

npm install @horizon/server --save

Add the horizon client to your vendor bundle in aurelia_project/aurelia.json

"prepend": [
  "node_modules/bluebird/js/browser/bluebird.core.js",
  "node_modules/@horizon/client/dist/horizon.js",
  "scripts/require.js"
],

Now you can start Horizon and Aurelia

npm start

Inspect the source of this project to see how horizon is used as a service.