Separate Angular2 TypeScript files and JavaScript files into different folders, maybe 'dist‘

Question

I am using the 5 min quickstart from angular.io website, which contain a file structure like this:

angular2-quickstart
 app
   app.component.ts
   boot.ts
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Answer 1

I may be also late but I did this.

First do what raheel shan said.

Then create the dist folder.

After creating the folder go to the file tsconfig.json and add this:

"outDir": "dist"

The resulting tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "outDir": "dist"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "typings/main",
    "typings/main.d.ts"
  ]
}

If you now run npm start and save a file you should see all the compiled .js and .map.js in the dist folder.