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
The Aurelia documentation has a really nice chapter that explains what each part of a simple application does, one step at a time. It is probably a good start that do not overwhelm you with dependencies like Bootstrap and similar.
Also note that there is now a CLI interface to Aurelia that simplifies setting up a project from scratch.