Messing around with Angular 2 Universal Starter and ES2015

A minimal Angular 2 starter for Universal JavaScript using webpack Goals:

• use Angular2
• use universal/isomorphic JS
• use minimal or no server transpiling (es6 imports are most noticeable loss, but also cause the most debugging pain when transpiled)
• use webpack/babel for client transpiling
• jasmine for server, client, and e2e
• eslint enforcing code quality and style

Notable Branches

• master - a messy hodgepodge of features currently using webpack
• webpack - (stale: beta.9) demonstrates minimal angular2 universal with webpack
• systemjs - (stale: beta.9) demonstrates minimal angular2 universal with systemjs

Installation

Tested with node 6.5.0 and npm 3.10.3 (aside: npm 3 is required for most angular2 dependencies).

• npm install

Serve

• gulp serve to build your client app and start a web server

For fun:

• browse to http://localhost:9000 to see the server rendered app
• browse to http://localhost:9000/about/nested to deep link into server rendered app
• browse to http://localhost:9000/public/index.html to load static html and bypass server rendering
• browse to http://localhost:9000/invalid to verify server returns 404 for unknown resources

Caveats

• there's no production build
• security implications of server side rendering need to be considered

License

available under MIT. See LICENSE for more details.