Angular CLI ?

This starter is not created to compete with official CLI and I recommend you to try Angular CLI. I made the starter with similar structure to ease migration.

For those who're new to Angular and tooling, then CLI is for you, no other reason.

For those who're already experienced in Angular, and love to craft-your-own, customize, eager to update packages as soon as it's out, then starters are more suitable for you.

Clone or download the starter?

Simple. Clone is only for collaborators since they need .git history, or you need specific branch. Download is for general purpose use.

Download from releases page is highly recommended.

Is it production ready?

The starter is ready for production bundling using AoT compilation, Lazy-loading, and Tree-shaking support.

It also supports CI/CD pipeline by installing dependencies only needed during test and build.

Adding global CSS/JS packages

• You can import them in src/vendor.ts and src/vendor-style.ts for CSS

// Pre-included example
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css';
import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css';

• If you want the package (modular/global) to be cached with DLL, add them to src/vendor.dll.ts
• Consider running npm run build:dll to refresh DLL package

Adding modular JS package like lodash, etc from npm

• Just do npm install --save <package-name>

• Install the typing with npm install -D @types/<package-name>

• Then just import the package in your TypeScript file

  // Example
  import { filter } from 'lodash';
  

Any files that I can delete from the starter?

Yes, you can remove these since it's only used for starter CI:

• .env.travis
• .travis.yml
• appveyor.yml