Aurora is a popular name for tech projects, it seems. Following on from https://thenewstack.io/amazon-web-services-wants-you-to-migrate-off-legacy-databases/ and https://thenewstack.io/twitters-aurora-relates-googles-borg-part-1/, Google’s Aurora project is a collaboration between its Chrome browser team and open source web frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt and Angular.
In his presentation, Djirdeh outlined four key areas of focus for Chrome when working with web frameworks.
He said they initially considered building their own framework (meaning the Chrome team; while Angular originated in Google, it wasn’t from the browser team).
He added that often it’ll be the Google Chrome, Facebook React and Next.js teams meeting together.