borisd/angular2-websocket-test: An Angular 2 Webpack Starter kit featuring Angular 2 (Router, Http, Forms, Services, Tests, E2E), Karma, Protractor, Jasmine, TypeScript, and Webpack by @Angular-Class · GitHub

Some comments using Angular2:

• The sample starter leaves a bad taste:
• • No live reload
• • No clear start instructions
• The webpack sample
• • Has styles inlined in directive
• • Lots of crud
• The idea of bootstrap and bindings feels horrible
• Lifecycle.. what is that?
• [(ng-model)] - What?
• The binding of #var seems nice, but if it was also on controller’s this.var <— great.
• • If it was two way, amazing (this.var = 3)
• Everything is “import” - so why do we need Dependency Injection?
• No idea how data binding works.. it does..
• Why * before ng-for?
• Two way binding for input is horrible (why do we need to worry about keyup and other events?):
• • <input #ref [value]="message" (keyup)="message = ref.value” />