An Angular 2 starter kit featuring Angular 2 and Angular 4 (Ahead of Time Compile, Router, Forms, Http, Services, Tests, E2E), Karma, Protractor, Jasmine, Istanbul, TypeScript, @types, TsLint, Codelyzer, Hot Module Replacement, and Webpack 2 by AngularClass.
If you're looking for Angular 1.x please use NG6-starter If you're looking to learn about Webpack and ES6 Build Tools check out ES6-build-tools If you're looking to learn TypeScript see TypeStrong/learn-typescript If you're looking for something easier to get started with then see the angular2-seed that I also maintain angular/angular2-seed
This seed repo serves as an Angular 2 starter for anyone looking to get up and running with Angular 2 and TypeScript fast. Using a Webpack 2 for building our files and assisting with boilerplate. We're also using Protractor for our end-to-end story and Karma for our unit tests.
- Best practices in file and application organization for Angular 2.
- Ready to go build system using Webpack for working with TypeScript.
- Angular 2 examples that are ready to go when experimenting with Angular 2.
- A great Angular 2 seed repo for anyone who wants to start their project.
- Ahead of Time (AoT) compile for rapid page loads of your production builds.
- Tree shaking to automatically remove unused code from your production bundle.
- Webpack DLLs dramatically speed your development builds.
- Testing Angular 2 code with Jasmine and Karma.
- Coverage with Istanbul and Karma
- End-to-end Angular 2 code using Protractor.
- Type manager with @types
- Hot Module Replacement with Webpack and @angularclass/hmr and @angularclass/hmr-loader
- Material Design with angular/material2
- Angular 4 support via changing package.json and any future Angular versions
Make sure you have Node version >= 5.0 and NPM >= 3
Clone/Download the repo then edit
app.component.tsinside/src/app/app.component.ts
# clone our repo
# --depth 1 removes all but one .git commit history
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/angularclass/angular2-webpack-starter.git
# change directory to our repo
cd angular2-webpack-starter
# install the repo with npm
npm install
# start the server
npm start
# use Hot Module Replacement
npm run server:dev:hmr
# if you're in China use cnpm
# https://github.com/cnpm/cnpmgo to http://0.0.0.0:3000 or http://localhost:3000 in your browser
- File Structure
- Getting Started
- Configuration
- AoT Don'ts
- External Stylesheets
- Contributing
- TypeScript
- @Types
- Frequently asked questions
- Support, Questions, or Feedback
- License
We use the component approach in our starter. This is the new standard for developing Angular apps and a great way to ensure maintainable code by encapsulation of our behavior logic. A component is basically a self contained app usually in a single file or a folder with each concern as a file: style, template, specs, e2e, and component class. Here's how it looks:
angular2-webpack-starter/
├──config/ * our configuration
| ├──helpers.js * helper functions for our configuration files
| ├──spec-bundle.js * ignore this magic that sets up our angular 2 testing environment
| ├──karma.conf.js * karma config for our unit tests
| ├──protractor.conf.js * protractor config for our end-to-end tests
│ ├──webpack.dev.js * our development webpack config
│ ├──webpack.prod.js * our production webpack config
│ └──webpack.test.js * our testing webpack config
│
├──src/ * our source files that will be compiled to javascript
| ├──main.browser.ts * our entry file for our browser environment
│ │
| ├──index.html * Index.html: where we generate our index page
│ │
| ├──polyfills.ts * our polyfills file
│ │
│ ├──app/ * WebApp: folder
│ │ ├──app.component.spec.ts * a simple test of components in app.component.ts
│ │ ├──app.e2e.ts * a simple end-to-end test for /
│ │ └──app.component.ts * a simple version of our App component components
│ │
│ └──assets/ * static assets are served here
│ ├──icon/ * our list of icons from www.favicon-generator.org
│ ├──service-worker.js * ignore this. Web App service worker that's not complete yet
│ ├──robots.txt * for search engines to crawl your website
│ └──humans.txt * for humans to know who the developers are
│
│
├──tslint.json * typescript lint config
├──typedoc.json * typescript documentation generator
├──tsconfig.json * typescript config used outside webpack
├──tsconfig.webpack.json * config that webpack uses for typescript
├──package.json * what npm uses to manage it's dependencies
└──webpack.config.js * webpack main configuration file
What you need to run this app:
nodeandnpm(brew install node)- Ensure you're running the latest versions Node
v4.x.x+ (orv5.x.x) and NPM3.x.x+
If you have
nvminstalled, which is highly recommended (brew install nvm) you can do anvm install --lts && nvm usein$to run with the latest Node LTS. You can also have thiszshdone for you automatically
Once you have those, you should install these globals with npm install --global:
webpack(npm install --global webpack)webpack-dev-server(npm install --global webpack-dev-server)karma(npm install --global karma-cli)protractor(npm install --global protractor)typescript(npm install --global typescript)
forkthis repocloneyour forknpm install webpack-dev-server rimraf webpack -gto install required global dependenciesnpm installto install all dependencies oryarnnpm run serverto start the dev server in another tab
After you have installed all dependencies you can now run the app. Run npm run server to start a local server using webpack-dev-server which will watch, build (in-memory), and reload for you. The port will be displayed to you as http://0.0.0.0:3000 (or if you prefer IPv6, if you're using express server, then it's http://[::1]:3000/).
# development
npm run server
# production
npm run build:prod
npm run server:prod# development
npm run build:dev
# production (jit)
npm run build:prod
# AoT
npm run build:aotnpm run server:dev:hmrnpm run watchnpm run testnpm run watch:test# update Webdriver (optional, done automatically by postinstall script)
npm run webdriver:update
# this will start a test server and launch Protractor
npm run e2e# this will test both your JIT and AoT builds
npm run cinpm run e2e:livenpm run build:dockerConfiguration files live in config/ we are currently using webpack, karma, and protractor for different stages of your application
The following are some things that will make AoT compile fail.
- Don’t use require statements for your templates or styles, use styleUrls and templateUrls, the angular2-template-loader plugin will change it to require at build time.
- Don’t use default exports.
- Don’t use
form.controls.controlName, useform.get(‘controlName’) - Don’t use
control.errors?.someError, usecontrol.hasError(‘someError’) - Don’t use functions in your providers, routes or declarations, export a function and then reference that function name
- @Inputs, @Outputs, View or Content Child(ren), Hostbindings, and any field you use from the template or annotate for Angular should be public
Any stylesheets (Sass or CSS) placed in the src/styles directory and imported into your project will automatically be compiled into an external .css and embedded in your production builds.
For example to use Bootstrap as an external stylesheet:
- Create a
styles.scssfile (name doesn't matter) in thesrc/stylesdirectory. npm installthe version of Boostrap you want.- In
styles.scssadd@import 'bootstrap/scss/bootstrap.scss'; - In
src/app/app.module.tsadd underneath the other import statements:import '../styles/styles.scss';
You can include more examples as components but they must introduce a new concept such as Home component (separate folders), and Todo (services). I'll accept pretty much everything so feel free to open a Pull-Request
To take full advantage of TypeScript with autocomplete you would have to install it globally and use an editor with the correct TypeScript plugins.
TypeScript 2.1.x includes everything you need. Make sure to upgrade, even if you installed TypeScript previously.
npm install --global typescript
We have good experience using these editors:
- Visual Studio Code
- Webstorm 10
- Atom with TypeScript plugin
- Sublime Text with Typescript-Sublime-Plugin
Install Debugger for Chrome and see docs for instructions to launch Chrome
The included .vscode automatically connects to the webpack development server on port 3000.
When you include a module that doesn't include Type Definitions inside of the module you can include external Type Definitions with @types
i.e, to have youtube api support, run this command in terminal:
npm i @types/youtube @types/gapi @types/gapi.youtubeIn some cases where your code editor doesn't support Typescript 2 yet or these types weren't listed in tsconfig.json, add these to "src/custom-typings.d.ts" to make peace with the compile check:
import '@types/gapi.youtube';
import '@types/gapi';
import '@types/youtube';When including 3rd party modules you also need to include the type definition for the module if they don't provide one within the module. You can try to install it with @types
npm install @types/node
npm install @types/lodash
If you can't find the type definition in the registry we can make an ambient definition in this file for now. For example
declare module "my-module" {
export function doesSomething(value: string): string;
}If you're prototyping and you will fix the types later you can also declare it as type any
declare var assert: any;
declare var _: any;
declare var $: any;If you're importing a module that uses Node.js modules which are CommonJS you need to import as
import * as _ from 'lodash';- What's the current browser support for Angular 2?
- Please view the updated list of browser support for Angular 2
- Why is my service, aka provider, is not injecting parameter correctly?
- Please use
@Injectable()for your service for typescript to correctly attach the metadata (this is a TypeScript problem)
- Please use
- How do I run protractor with node 0.12.x?
- please check out this repo to use the old version of protractor #146
- Where do I write my tests?
- You can write your tests next to your component files. See
/src/app/home/home.component.spec.ts
- You can write your tests next to your component files. See
- How do I start the app when I get
EACCESandEADDRINUSEerrors?- The
EADDRINUSEerror means the port3000is currently being used andEACCESis lack of permission for webpack to build files to./dist/
- The
- How to use
sassfor css? -
loaders: ['raw-loader','sass-loader']and@Component({ styleUrls: ['./filename.scss'] })see Wiki page How to include SCSS in components, or issue #136 for more information.
- How do I test a Service?
- See issue #130
- How do I add
vscode-chrome-debugsupport? - The VS Code chrome debug extension support can be done via
launch.jsonsee issue #144 - How do I make the repo work in a virtual machine?
- You need to use
0.0.0.0so revert these changes #205 - What are the naming conventions for Angular 2?
- please see issue #185 and PR 196
- How do I include bootstrap or jQuery?
- please see issue #215 and #214
- How do I async load a component?
- see wiki How-do-I-async-load-a-component-with-AsyncRoute
- Error: Cannot find module 'tapable'
- Remove
node_modules/and runnpm cache cleanthennpm install - How do I turn on Hot Module Replacement
- Run
npm run server:dev:hmr RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded- This is a problem with minifying Angular 2 and it's recent JIT templates. If you set
mangletofalsethen you should be good. - Why is the size of my app larger in development?
- We are using inline source-maps and hot module replacement which will increase the bundle size.
- If you're in China
- check out https://github.com/cnpm/cnpm
- If you're looking to add Angular 2 Material Design
- check out the material2 branch
- node-pre-gyp ERR in npm install (Windows)
- install Python x86 version between 2.5 and 3.0 on windows see issue #626
Error:Error: Parse tsconfig error [{"messageText":"Unknown compiler option 'lib'.","category":1,"code":5023},{"messageText":"Unknown compiler option 'strictNullChecks'.","category":1,"code":5023},{"messageText":"Unknown compiler option 'baseUrl'.","category":1,"code":5023},{"messageText":"Unknown compiler option 'paths'.","category":1,"code":5023},{"messageText":"Unknown compiler option 'types'.","category":1,"code":5023}]- remove
node_modules/typescriptand runnpm install typescript@beta. This repo now uses ts 2.0 - "There are multiple modules with names that only differ in casing"
- change
c:\[path to angular2-webpack-starter]toC:\[path to angular2-webpack-starter]see 926#issuecomment-245223547
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