When installing the Aurelia navigation skeleton app it is far to overwhelming with all the 3rd party modules and ready-made scripts it uses. For me who have a good picture of wh
I created a repo (up to date as of April 2017) that includes the absolute barebones necessary items to run Aurelia at https://github.com/nathanchase/super-minimal-aurelia
It's an ES6-based Aurelia implementation (rather than Typescript), it incorporates code-splitting by routes (using the latest syntax in Aurelia's router to designate chunk creation according to files under a route), and it works in all evergreen browsers AND Internet Explorer 11, 10, and 9 thanks to a few necessary included polyfills.