johnmunsch/root

Code, links, and reference material for the Packt Publishing course Angular 2 Essentials.

root's Issues

Video 1.4/end refuses to work

I'm not sure what's going wrong, but I've attempted the following in order:

• tried the code changes from the video in the Video 1.4/start directory.
• pulled the latest from this github's final branch, and modified the start/index.html and start/app/app.component.ts files by comparing their contents to the corresponding files from the Video 1.4/end directory.
• attempted to run the contents of the Video 1.4/end directory.

Each time, all I've gotten is the "Loading ..." page; no "Hello World!" appears. Each time, I've followed the instructions in the video:

• ran npm install in the directory.
• made modifications as mentioned above.
• ran gulp to serve these files locally.

Running it in end won't even transpile the app.components.ts into the corresponding *.js files. I was able to get TypeScript to transpile it in the start directory, but I'm unsure as to how this happened. I think it might have been my editing gulpfile.js line 16, which I changed to:

typescriptSource: [ './app/*.ts' ],

where it used to be typescriptSource: [ './app/**/*.ts' ],. The dir structure made that stand out as an issue, though I'm not sure if that will cause further problems.

Would you have any input as to what else might be wrong? I'll continue with the videos, and hope that this isn't too vital, though the excitement of not getting this simple app to run quickly has mellowed my enthusiasm.