2017 is going to be a great year for Aurelia and her community. With continued adoption by startups, the enterprise and many industries, we're seeing amazing growth every week. As always, our team is working hard and we've got some great things planned for 2017. Read on to see what we're working on now.

Accompanying the framework itself, we're continuing to build an amazing ecosystem. A big part of this is tools. Here are six tooling improvements we're working on and expect to see big enhancements in for 2017.

New Scenarios

As always, we're continuing to work on the core framework. An important aspect of this continued effort, is adding new features and plugins that enable whole new scenarios for our community. There are two big areas that we're focusing on in 2017.

Server-Side Rendering

While most developers don't need server-side rendering for their Aurelia apps, it's still an important feature that enables new scenarios for our community. We began putting the base abstractions in place for this as part of our Beta. Now we are working towards the full implementation. As part of the template validation work mentioned above, we've already got Aurelia running under Node. We're currently working on integrating Aurelia with an Express-based application to render the app on the server, sending back the full HTML to the client, with no client-side JavaScript being necessary. This will enable the use of Aurelia in SEO-critical applications as well as improve load-time performance when intelligently combined with caching strategies. After this basic form of server-rendering is up and running, we'll then extend the Aurelia framework with "pick up and continue" capabilities so that a server-rendered UI can run with full fidelity in the browser from then on.

Aurelia UX

Recently, we announced that we . It's called Aurelia UX. While Aurelia is a front-end framework, targeting the software design of your application, Aurelia UX is a user experience framework, dealing mostly with the UI/UX design of your application. We'll be putting major effort into the core capabilities and available components for Aurelia UX this year.