Huge number of files generated for every Angular project
There is nothing wrong with your configuration.
Angular (since version 2.0) uses npm modules and dependencies for development. That's the sole reason you are seeing such a huge number of files.
A basic setup of Angular contains transpiler, typings dependencies which are essential for development purposes only.
Once you are done with development, all you will need to do is to bundle this application.
After bundling your application, there will be only one bundle.js file which you can then deploy on your server.
'transpiler' is just a compiler, thanks @omninonsense for adding that.
Typical Angular2 ProjectNPM Package Files (Development) Real World Files (Deployment)
@angular 3,236 1rxJS 1,349 1*core-js 1,341 2typings 1,488 0gulp 1,218 0gulp-typescript 1,243 0lite-server 5,654 0systemjs-builder 6,470 0__________________________________________________________________Total 21,999 3 *: bundled with @angular
There is nothing wrong with your development configuration.
Something wrong with your production configuration.
When you develop a "Angular 2 Project" or "Any Project Which is based on JS" you can use all files, you can try all files, you can import all files. But if you want to serve this project you need to COMBINE all structured files and get rid of useless files.
There are a lot of options for combine these files together:
- YUI Compressor
- Google Closure Compiler
- For server side (I think it is best) GULP