How to setup the environment for Angular 2.0?

Question

Taking my initial steps towards Angular 2.0.

First thing is to set up the right environment for the development.

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Answer 1

If you are already using Visual Studio Code as an IDE, you may want to explore how they recommend setting up Angular. I personally found their installation guide painless and feature-rich. I have never walked through an official Angular installation before due to being drenched in jQuery projects. This guide was simple enough to give me a good beginners understanding.

Answer 2

You have angular-cli wich is a good starter point. It will set you everything up according to best practices.

Answer 3

npm install in the root project (it will create your node_modules from the dependencies mentioned in package.json file, should have those files as a start)

Answer 4

Simple way to set up your first Angular 2 Application.

1. Download the zip version here.firstAngular2App

2. Extract it to your destination folder. Assume D:

3. Open your command prompt(ensure that all required softwares are installed).

4. Navigate it to the folder. Use the command cd D:\firstAngular2App

5. Executre npm install

6. Once it is done use npm start

This way you have your first Angular2 appliction up and running.