aurelia-orbit-poc

This is a quick and dirty proof of concept for using OrbitJS in an AureliaJS app as a data layer for requesting/ managing JSON API data.

Get it running

1. Clone it
2. run npm install in the root
3. run npm start (it's built from the esnext webpack skeleton).

OrbitJS Usage

tl;dr

I'm using the store as the main source with an indexedDB source as the backup. It also uses a indexedDB bucket (so you can inspect the dev tools and see your datas). Finally, it uses JSONAPIsource as the remote source which handles all of the requests. There is a coordinator that hooks into requests/updates on the store and synce both the remote source as well as the backup.

I just followed the "Getting Started" section on orbitjs.com. Check it out for a more detailed explanation.

Highlights

• You should put the store in a service so you can use it throughout your app.
• set Orbit.fetch to use the http-fetch-client.fetch

import { HttpClient } from 'aurelia-fetch-client';
import Orbit from '@orbit/core';

...

const client = new HttpClient();

// Use http-fetch-client.
Orbit.fetch = client.fetch;

• Remember to delete the IndexedDB databases as you make changes to the code.

Special Thanks

• Thanks to Rob Eisenberg and friends for building AureliaJS!
• Thanks to Dan Gebhardt and friends for buidling OrbitJS!

Hope this helps someone :)