WOW O WOW thank you clarifying... This makes MUCH more sense than swimming in the dark lost. They really need to copy-paste what you wrote as an excerpt at the end of the tutorial, because I bet more people like me are set on a bad path.
On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 2:53:30 AM UTC-5, Sander Elias wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > Those are a bit different. Quickstart has been build around systemJS, wich > basically a tool that makes the browser know what to do with modules (load > them when asked for.) This sounds nice, but you end up with 2500+ modules > to load, and this slows down tremendously. Even on http2. (ok,ok, not > really black-white, and I'm simplifying and cutting corners here!) > This is not a problem if you want to do a small prototype, and it's a very > flexible way of building. However, turns out, that for production you need > overly complex configuration/tooling. > > On the other side is Angular-CLI. This is a build tool and generator in > one. It takes care of all the nasty tooling stuff, and building for > production is as simple as adding a --prod to the command at hand. Also, it > helps you during the whole lifetime of the application. Adding a module, > components/whatever you need, CLI will help. Want to utilise AOT? again, > CLI will help, and so on. The list is getting longer with every release. > > Takeaway: use the CLI. And stay clear of other build tools as long as you > possibly can. For most projects, that will be the entire lifetime of those. > > The TOH, was build before the CLI was in a usable state, and is a demo > project, it was never meant to be build for production. (euhm, last time I > looked TOH didn't use CLI, but that might have been changed!) > > Regards > Sander > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Angular" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to angular+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to angular@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
