pull features from angular2 seed

[lathonez]

See what https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed have done since we forked and steal any cool stuff :)

[lathonez]

Had a quick look tonight, they have the following:

• painless adding of node_modules (e.g. no karma.conf fuckery)
• test watching (dunno if this is worth it with the boilerplate overhead, will see)
• e2e testing with protractor

Ahead of this I've refactored gulpfile.js (now ts!) along the same lines as theirs.

[lathonez]

Taken gulp-inline-ng2-template in 0b6f152, so we don't need to copy html and need less proxying

[lathonez]

When I include moment.js I still get a 404 from Karma using angular2 seed.

[lathonez]

As luck would have it, they've had the exact same issue raised there:

mgechev/angular-seed#468

So they're using system config instead of proxying in Karma. Seems a bit cleaner..

[lathonez]

They do in config.ts:

// ----------------
// SystemsJS Configuration.
const SYSTEM_CONFIG_DEV = {
  defaultJSExtensions: true,
  paths: {
    [BOOTSTRAP_MODULE]: `${APP_BASE}${BOOTSTRAP_MODULE}`,
    'angular2/*': `${APP_BASE}angular2/*`,
    'rxjs/*': `${APP_BASE}rxjs/*`,
    '*': `${APP_BASE}node_modules/*`
  },
  packages: {
    angular2: { defaultExtension: false },
    rxjs: { defaultExtension: false }
  }
};

export const SYSTEM_CONFIG = SYSTEM_CONFIG_DEV;

And then this in index.html:

  <% if (ENV === 'dev') { %>
  <script>System.config(<%= JSON.stringify(SYSTEM_CONFIG) %>)</script>
  <% } %>

which is built as part of build.dev.index:

export = function buildIndexDev(gulp, plugins) {
  return function () {
    return gulp.src(join(APP_SRC, 'index.html'))
      .pipe(inject('shims'))
      .pipe(inject('libs'))
      .pipe(inject())
      .pipe(plugins.template(templateLocals()))
      .pipe(gulp.dest(APP_DEST));
  };

[lathonez]

Lot of flapping, but it might help us get away from stuff like this

[lathonez]

Seems like a bit of a rabbit hole considering it doesn't give you external deps for free, dropping

[lathonez]

test debug watching working & written up

[lathonez]

Closed in favour of #38