Composing package.json for a minimum viable Angular 2 application

When thinking about a minimum viable Angular 2 application, the configuration files are as close to the metal of the runtime environment as you'll get. In this case, there are two configuration files that will control how npm and its installed packages will manage the files and the start-up processes: package.json and tsconfig.json.

Some part of this recipe may be a review for developers that are more experienced with npm and its faculties. However, it's important to understand how a very simple Angular 2 project configuration can be structured, so that you are able to wholly understand more complex configurations that are build upon its fundamentals.

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The code, links, and a live example of this are available at http://ngcookbook.herokuapp.com/1332/.

Getting ready

You'll need Node.js installed for this recipe to work; you'll also need an empty project directory. You should create these two skeleton configuration files in the...