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by vayarajesh 3464 days ago
Cool, I was just getting started with Angular 2 and Typescript (coming from Angular 1) and I think your example is just the perfect way to understand how an app is to be made with it :)

How is angular-cli different from angular's quick start or a seed project setup ?
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MrAwesomeSauce 3464 days ago
Thank you :)

The CLI is just a command line interface that makes scaffolding and generating a project a lot easier. Adding new components, routes, services, etc... can be done with simple commands. Angular seed gives you a skeleton that you can start your app with, and the quick start provides a super barebones starting point with just a single AppComponent if I'm not mistaken.

I personally enjoy using the CLI and haven't tried the seed myself. If you're interested in how I set up this app, I wrote a blog post (http://houssein.me/angular2-hacker-news) detailing each and every step using the CLI so I hope it helps :) (this was done a few months ago so the progressive elements such as the Service Worker and manifest isn't included)

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Yhippa 3464 days ago
Not sure if you've used this but it sounds like Angular CLI is very similar to Yeoman in terms of guided app generation.

That blog post is very good BTW. I like how it goes through all of the intermediate steps that any developer would do to make a PoC.

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MrAwesomeSauce 3464 days ago
Yeah I've only briefly tried Yeoman quite some time ago, but they are quite similar in terms of generating scaffolds.

And thank you, I appreciate it! I tried my best to flush out every single step I had to go through while building the app so I'm glad you liked it.

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vayarajesh 3464 days ago
oh the blog post would be perfect!, I will go through it. I will try to create a twitter client to get familiar with angular cli and angular 2 in general. Thanks :)

Btw, I like the way blog UI and its simplicity and code-display friendly-ness, what tool/app you use for the blog? (if you don't mind sharing the details)

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MrAwesomeSauce 3464 days ago
Of course! So the blog itself is built with Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) and hosted on Github Pages. This makes it easy for me to just create new posts with markdown and GitHub pages provides free hosting!

I tried to keep things as minimal as possible so I'm glad you like it. For the code highlighting, I'm using Prism (http://prismjs.com/index.html)

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vayarajesh 3464 days ago
Super!
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