I highly recommend the angular cli tool. In 2 minutes you have a webpack setup with bootstrap that hot reloads your code . you can even proxy API calls to you

I highly recommend the angular cli tool. In 2 minutes you have a webpack setup with bootstrap that hot reloads your code . you can even proxy API calls to your real web server. Deploying consists of copying the dist folder . With tree shaking the footprint for angular 2 drops significantly