Hello AngularJs 2

I have been doing angular development for almost two years now building/maintaining an online banking application. We first started off with version 1 of angularjs and slowly upgraded to 1.2.8 which currently is considered legacy 🤕. We need to make the movement to push forward now that we “officially” dropped support of IE8 (people ask why so long, but a large vocal percentage was using IE8 at the start of the year and we didn’t want to intentionally break anything).

Through a series of events we actually built our system with typescript which turned out to be a stroke of good luck since angular2 is officially using typescript. Today is the day I actually build something with AngularJs and the best way to do that is to use the quick start

Files Created

app.component.ts

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: '<h1>Hello Angular Js 2</h1>'
})
export class AppComponent { }

boot.ts

import {bootstrap}    from 'angular2/platform/browser'
import {AppComponent} from './app.component'

bootstrap(AppComponent);

index.html

<html>

<head>
    <title>Angular 2 QuickStart</title>

    <!-- 1. Load libraries -->
    <script src="node_modules/angular2/bundles/angular2-polyfills.js"></script>
    <script src="node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.src.js"></script>
    <script src="node_modules/rxjs/bundles/Rx.js"></script>
    <script src="node_modules/angular2/bundles/angular2.dev.js"></script>

    <!-- 2. Configure SystemJS -->
    <script>
        System.config({
            packages: {
                app: {
                    format: 'register',
                    defaultExtension: 'js'
                }
            }
        });
        System.import('app/boot')
                .then(null, console.error.bind(console));
    </script>

</head>

<!-- 3. Display the application -->
<body>
<my-app>Loading...</my-app>
</body>

</html>

package.json

{
  "name": "angular2-quickstart",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "scripts": {
    "tsc": "tsc",
    "tsc:w": "tsc -w",
    "lite": "lite-server",
    "start": "concurrent \"npm run tsc:w\" \"npm run lite\" "
  },
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "angular2": "2.0.0-beta.0",
    "systemjs": "0.19.6",
    "es6-promise": "^3.0.2",
    "es6-shim": "^0.33.3",
    "reflect-metadata": "0.1.2",
    "rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.0",
    "zone.js": "0.5.10"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "concurrently": "^1.0.0",
    "lite-server": "^1.3.1",
    "typescript": "^1.7.3"
  }
}

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES5",
    "module": "system",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "noImplicitAny": false
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules"
  ]
}

All of this was from the quick start guide

After doing npm start

#Success Illustration from Hello AngularJs 2 (1)

mental recap

Angularjs looks familiar but yet foreign
I need to learn more about boot, components, and SystemJs
I need to learn about the upgrade guide

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