I was new to NPM until recently as well. I took the time to learn to use it, and can say it's totally the way to go.
I use Visual Studio 2013 (note: I recommend 2015 as, in a future update, they'll be fixing some crashing issues) and while there were some difficulties getting going initially, I like the environment a lot now. However it's really your call what you use. You can use Visual Studio Code, which is a misleading name, because it's really a completely different tool, just renamed. Anyway, back to NPM.... Visual Studio comes with "NuGet" integration which we used initally, but NuGet does NOT have Angular 2 alphas. This meant that I couldn't stay up-to-date with the latest Angular 2 alpha releases, which is a no-no. So *definitely* learn NPM. It's not that hard, and once you learn the few simple commands, it's very easy to stay up-to-date with the latest versions of everything, including not only the Angular 2 alphas, but ALSO the TypeScript definitiions files for everything. (Learn to use the tsd tool too!) Yes, there are new tools to learn, but trust me, it's worth learning them. I don't believe you need to learn Node.js to get started, nor GIT. You can get started with the Angular 2 tutorial just with NPM and a little TypeScript knowledge. (And again, trust me here: TypeScript is also totally worth learning. Light years better than JavaScript.) After you learn NPM, try the tutorial again. If you run into problems post here, I'll see if I can help you out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
