Bundling?

I get that this is a minimal build intended for local dev, but there will be a point when users want to deploy something, and there’s no built-in ‘graduation’ if they start building on this repo.

It’d be nice to have an npm run build or equivalent to bundle, minify and tree-shake into a single bundle.js for convenience, to let users quickly upload something and see it working live.

That’s a surprisingly difficult step for an Angular newbie, when the CLI abstracts away the webpack details and many generators are out of date or no longer maintained.

[Foxandxss]

No worries my friend, we are making a lot of changes right now in those aspects.

We have a deploy guide and we will update the quickstart as well.

[leebenson]

And, I’m sure I speak for others @Foxandxss, I certainly appreciate all efforts to build something like this quickstart guide. My main peev as a new user is lack of ‘official’ consistency. A user is either faced with going it alone or trusting everything to the CLI. Neither is ideal.

A simple, solid webpack starter that works in browsers and generates first-page HTML - and is kept up to date - would be awesome.

I’ll post my attempt at that here when it’s finished, hopefully in the next couple of days.