Last time I showed you a way to create a Typescript application template. Now we can use that as a starting point for an Angular 2 application.

As usual, I have created a GitHub repo with the necessary sources and the list of steps to perform. At the end of the process, we’ll get our friendly web server showing a nice “lorem ipsum” coming from an Angular2 Component .

Also in this case the core of the system is gulpfile.js which exposes a bunch of tasks:

1. ‘clean’ : as the name may suggest, this task is used to clear the www folder from all the external libraries, the transpiled .js files and sourcemaps
2. ‘libs’: this will copy the depencencies to a specific folder
3. ‘build’: this will execute ‘clean’ and ‘libs’ and then transpile the .ts files
4. ‘default’: will execute ‘build’, fire up the webserver and watch the .ts files for changes

Worth of mention is also the index.html which contains the SystemJs initialization code.

Enjoy!

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