What we've got here

• Server Side rendering for instant page loading
• Preboot to catch browser events before Angular2 is ready to work.
• Webpack and its Code Splitting feature which allows us to lazy load parts of an application if needed.
• Live Reloading, a browser will be reloaded on any change in server or browser code. It works well for both a main thread and web workers.
• TypeScript 2
• Linting with TSLint
• Express - de facto standard for Node.js web apps.
• PM2 - most advanced Node.js process manager
• Unit testing with Karma
• End-to-End testing with Protractor

Installation

• yarn install (npm install will still work)

Serve

• npm start to build your client app and start a web server
• npm run build to prepare a distributable bundle

Development

• run npm start and npm run watch in two separate terminals to build your client app, start a web server, and allow file changes to update in realtime

Watch files

• npm run watch to build your client app and start a web server

AoT and Prod

• npm run build:prod:ngc to compile the ngfactory files and build prod