The Aurelia team is hard at work preparing for our Release Candidate...but that's not all we're working on. We're always looking for ways to improve tooling, debugging and collaboration with community members and other vendors along the way.

Collaborating with Microsoft We've actually been collaborating with Microsoft for over a year now. We've worked with the TypeScript team to bring important real-world scenarios to their attention, leading to many improvements to TypeScript and its tooling over the last year. However, that's not the only group within Microsoft that we're working with. We're also working with them on improvements to "New Aurelia Project" from the VS project wizard, improvements to intellisense for Aurelia views, server-side rendering integration, validation and service proxy generation. We've had great interactions so far with Microsoft developers who are not only passionate about open source but also about giving first-class support to Aurelia developers on top of their tools. We're grateful for the collaborative spirit of the Microsoft employees we've been working with and we're excited about what the future holds.

Have you ever been working on an Aurelia application and had some data that wasn't displaying what you thought? or not displaying at all? Well, we have. So, one of our core contributors, Patrick Walters , started work some time back on a Chrome plugin for debugging binding context data. Eventually, community member Sylvain Hamel jumped in, extended the plugin's capabilities and cleaned up the code. This tool is called "Aurelia Context" and it . It creates a simple debug panel in the Chrome developer tools that provides you with contextual information related to Aurelia. This first release has a minimal feature set. We wanted to get it out to you as soon as we could so we could start getting feedback from you on what features we should add next. Give it a try and let us know how we can improve it to make your daily work with Aurelia better.