How would one abstract away the usage of browser's window object when using the Aurelia framework? I would like to avoid direct dependency on the browser when using functionality such as setInterval or addEventListener for example.

Aurelia has something called Platform Abstraction Library which in theory should provide the functionality I am looking for. However, I could not find any documentation about it at the time of writing this question.

How would one abstract away the usage of browser's window object when using the Aurelia framework? I would like to avoid direct dependency on the browser when using functionality such as setInterval or addEventListener for example.

Aurelia has something called Platform Abstraction Library which in theory should provide the functionality I am looking for. However, I could not find any documentation about it at the time of writing this question.

• javascript
• dependency-injection
• aurelia

1 Answer 1

Few examples:

import {DOM, PLATFORM, FEATURE} from 'aurelia-pal';

PLATFORM.addEventListener('click', e => ...);
PLATFORM.requestAnimationFrame(() => ...);

let event = DOM.createCustomEvent('foo', { bubbles: true });
DOM.dispatchEvent(event);
let element = DOM.createElement('div');

if (FEATURE.shadowDOM && FEATURE.scopedCSS && FEATURE.htmlTemplateElement) {
  ...
}

There's no setTimeout / setInterval in the PAL- I think because aurelia doesn't use setTimeout. I've added an issue to get these added.