Choosing an IDE
While Angular 2 applications can be developed with a plain text editor, working with an IDE (integrated develop environment) is highly recommended. Personally, I'm using webstorm (https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/), which offers complete support for Angular out of the box. If you are looking for a free, open source alternative, we have VSCode (https://code.visualstudio.com/), which also supports Angular 2 naturally. Both of them offer Angular code inspection and highlighting along with refactoring and autocomplete features. WebStorm offers a complete integration with almost every JavaScript tool out there and is considered by many to be the best JavaScript IDE out there.
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