Angular 2 ES6 Starter

This repo stands as a starting point for those who try Angular 2 in Javascript. It aims to use only standard compliant features while showing techniques how easy development can be also without Typescript. It shows a basic CRUD application with authentication, similar to Javascript news site jslive.com. You can see the list of links, add and edit them after you signed in.

Uses Babel to support class/parameter decorators.
No Typescript included.
Bundles JavaScript files with Webpack.
Automates tasks with Gulp.
Automatically rebundles and refreshes on changes.
Unit testing with Karma and Jasmine.
E2E testing with Protractor.
Includes deployment.
Linting with ESlint based on Airbnb's styleguide.

Motivation

There are plenty of resources for starter packs and documentations on how to write your Angular 2 application in Typescript. The official documentation is only complete for Typescript and the parts which are also in Javascript are so few and in ES5 syntax which is little bit clunky compared to ES6. The examples in starter packs for Javascript are so minimal, that you can hardly make a complex application without knowing the Javascript equivalents of Typescript solutions. This is why i decided to make a starter pack to show that equivalent easy and viable solutions exist in Javascript. I have collected and put these solutions into this repo.

Concepts covered

Creating components with directives
Communication between child and parent components
Dependency injection for services
Change detection strategies
Using custom pipes in templates
Handling HTTP calls
Using observables
Routing
Adding authentication to routing
Form handling
Using custom validators in forms

Quick Start

It bundles the application (JS files), copies the static files and starts the webserver with Nodemon. On server side changes restarts the server, on client side changes rebundles JS files and refreshes the page with Livereload.

git clone https://github.com/blacksonic/angular2-es6-starter.git
cd angular2-es6-starter
npm install

gulp serve

Open it in your browser http://localhost:9000 and let the fun begin!

Testing

Runs tests with Karma and Jasmine against the Angular 2 application.

gulp test

Because of the bundling of Webpack it takes multiple seconds which is not ideal for every file change. On your local machine you can run it continously. The test files can be found in the client/app folder next to the source files with *.spec.js extensions.

gulp test-dev

Deployment (to Heroku)

It bundles the application (JS files) and copies static files and server files to dist directory along with package.json. Then it can be commited to the desired location (for example Heroku).

gulp dist

cd dist
git init
git add -A .
git commit -m "Deploy #1" && echo Committed
git push -f git@heroku.com:angular2-es6-starter.git master