Angular Typescript app

Tiny Angular app written in Typescript perfect as boilerplate.

Getting started

Prerequisites: You need to have nodejs npm and git installed

• Clone or download the repo
• Run sudo npm install -g gulp bower tsd ( install global tools )
• cd into the project folder
• Run npm run build ( install project tools, libs and typings )
• run gulp watch (if you want build and serve the frontend and automatic reload the browser in case of changes, good for development)
• or gulp ( build frontend ) and gulp serve ( serve the dist folder ).

Note: if you want to change port of the static server go to gulp_tasks/gulp.serve.js file

TL;DR

###Folder structure

• src folder contains the source code, here is where you need to work

• dist folder contains the deployed folder this is what is served when you run gulp serve or gulp watch

• in the src folder the app is bootstrap in the components/app.ts file

• in the src folder each component has its own folder containing controller and view. The home controller for example will have:

• components/home/home.ts (angular controller in Typescript)

• components/home/home.html (HTML view)

• components/home/_home.scss (SASS style)

###Tasks (Gulp)

• The app use Gulp as task manager, mostly you will use gulp watch and gulp. You can see all the tasks in by running gulp help.
• The configuration for gulp is in gulp.config.js file.

It supports sourcemaps for Typescript

###Frontend library dependency manager (Bower)

• Third party libs are managed with Bower. It comes down to two basically commands: bower install <package> and bower update. Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file, bower.json.

###Typescript

• This app is written in Typescript.
• The Typescript Definition are managed by tsd and are downloaded by tsd in the folder typings. The type definition file for the libs (src/typings/tsd.d.ts) is automatically genereated.
• For manage type definitions there are two main commands tsd install <package> --resolve --save for install and tsd query angular* for search, for more info follow the guide on tsd.
• The type definition references of your app go to the file src/_app.d.ts.

Useful resources for learn Typescript and Angular:

• http://kwilson.me.uk/blog/writing-cleaner-angularjs-with-typescript-and-controlleras/
• https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/typescript-angular/js/controllers/TodoCtrl.ts

Resources & Articles

Very very good read on folder structure and Style guide

Folder structure

Todd Motto Style guide

John Papa Style guide

Simple Angualr Typescript written by Dan Wahlin