The first snapshot of Aurora has been uploaded to Sonatype. Instructions for experimenting at https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/aurora#playing-with-snapshot-builds

learned about compose two weeks ago so forgive my ignorance but why do you provide specific components? and not just a “skin”? e.g. using

Aurora {...}

instead of

Materialize {...}

good point

Aurora is more than a collection of skins

It's a feeling

Aurora is more than a collection of skins

perhaps this deserves a bit of an explanation

Documentation forthcoming. In general, there will be more components and features that are explicitly targeting the needs of non trivial desktop applications.