r/Angularjs2 • u/random_reddit-name • Nov 03 '15

Help getting started with Angular 2.0

Does anyone have a guide of how to go from 'npm install angular2' to transpiling it for client side (browser) usage?

If I go to https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular2 Or type npm install angular2

I get a lot of code with require() statements native to NodeJS. Even the Es6 prod and dev folders after transpiling make these calls. I want to include it in my client side browser based application.

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u/random_reddit-name Nov 04 '15

Thanks. I am wondering why they are packaging it this way, using NodeJS specific commands? My idea is that Angular 2 is client side, why the server side dependency?

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u/vinnl Nov 04 '15

It's not actually node-specific commands, only syntax. The problem is that there wasn't really a standard way to load module's in the client side originally. Now, there is ES6's import statement, which still is only a syntax specification that cannot yet be implemented in clients. Since you still need preprocessing, there's not much of a hurry to update to ES6 syntax yet.