I use Visual Studio 2017 and have developed two Angular 2 applications. The first is pure Angular 2 with no backend code (Data comes from wcf services). The second is an Angul
Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions. I've managed to achieve this by following the excellent article I found here: http://candordeveloper.com/2017/04/12/how-to-use-angular-cli-with-visual-studio-2017/
This article made it pretty straight-forward and it is working well. Hopefully this helps others as well.