Using aurelia DI in a nodejs application.

AccountController.js

//You need to enable babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy in order to use @inject decorator

const {inject, Container} = require('aurelia-dependency-injection');
const BaseController = require('../bases/BaseController');

@inject(Container)
class AccountContactController extends BaseController {

    constructor(container) {
        super('AccountContact', container);
    }
}

//Since I am using SailsJS which requires exporting an controller instance, I export this way.
//I figure I can manually new a controller for testing like so: new require('AccountContactController).constructor
module.exports = Container.instance.get(AccountContactController);

app.js

//Need to add some global polyfills
require('aurelia-polyfills');

//Make the global container available statically via Container.instance
//This allows us to export an object (instead of a class) if our framework wants us to export an object.
const di = require('aurelia-dependency-injection');
const rootContainer = new di.Container();
rootContainer.makeGlobal();