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

Adding on top of what raheel shan said. I had to make additional change in index.html to reflect to import correct javascript file now.

Here is summary from my side.

tsconfig.json

Before

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "lib": [ "es2015", "dom" ],
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true
  }
}

After:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "lib": [ "es2015", "dom" ],
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true,
    "outDir": "dist"
  },
  "exclude": [ 
    "node_modules",
    "typings/main",
    "typings/main.d.ts"
  ]
}

systemjs.config.js

Before:

'app': 'app',

After:

'app': 'dist/app', //'app

index.html

Before:

System.import('main.js').catch(function(err){ console.error(err); });

After:

System.import('dist/main.js').catch(function(err){ console.error(err); });