Angular 2 / 4 / 5 - Ahead-of-time compilation how to

Question

I\'m trying to bootstrap my Angular 2 RC5 application following this guide https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/ngmodule.html Below is my code

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Answer 1

2017 UPDATE

As of Janurary 2017 If using angular-cli, AOT compiling is now the default compilation method when running the following command ng build --prod with no code change requirements.

If you want to disable AOT and instead use JIT in production, then you can use ng build --prod --no-aot.

Source: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/4138

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This means that you can still use JIT compiling whilst developing (will compile faster so pretty handy) with ng build and leave your .ts as something like this:

// The browser platform with a compiler
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';

// The app module
import { AppModule } from './app/app.module';

// Compile and launch the module
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

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To Summarise:

ng build                    // build with JIT
ng build --prod --no-aot    // build with JIT 
ng build --prod             // build with AOT