Integrating Angular 2 into our application

The frontend application is going to be built using Angular 2. At the time of writing this book, the project is still in beta, but it will come in handy to start playing around with Angular and have a good understanding of the environment. Most of the code will follow the official docs view of the tooling and integration methods.

When we first described our folder structure, we saw a package.json file for the client application too. Let's take a look at it, found under the contact-manager/public/package.json path:

{ "private": true, "name": "mean-blueprints-contact-manager-client", "dependencies": { "systemjs": "^0.19.25", "es6-shim": "^0.35.0", "es6-promise": "^3.0.2", "rxjs": "^5.0.0-beta.2", "reflect-metadata": ...

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