feat(AoT): ✨ ✨ added initial AoT support any many other things

[MarkPieszak]

Made this one a PR since it's quite a massive change, I'm also going to drop some of the older naming conventions and stick with ones from the Angular style guideline. main.server.ts for example as opposed to boot-server

Added Bootstrap with SCSS / SASS support
Added ng2-bootstrap
Passing Server originURL so that URLs can use it (when 4.1 comes out (Closes #146 )
with HttpInterceptors this will be even easier to do)

✨ AoT added ! for prod (npm run build:aot) (Closes #10)

• Note: We still need to test this for Azure deployments etc

Removed es6-shim added core-js

Few other misc things...

Closes #61
Closes #149
Closes #92

[hheexx]

@MarkPieszak
No more vendor bundle?

[MarkPieszak]

At the moment no, had to get it working first had some hurdles to get around 🙈
There are ways of splitting it without doing a separate file we can do eventually.

[hheexx]

HMR code in main.browser.ts is patched in memory by ngtools?

[hheexx]

@MarkPieszak
Also, why you have seperate entry file for aot on server and not in a browser?
Is there a benefit of running aot on server?

[hheexx]

You did not hit this bug angular/angular-cli#5329 ?

[MarkPieszak]

Ng tools automatically handles the browsers AoT files, server will be able to do the same thing soon, but that's the only reason there are duplicate (sort of) files for server and server.aot and the tsconfigs.

HMR memory isn't here yet.

[MarkPieszak]

I didn't get that issue, you're on windows 10?

[hheexx]

Ok, we need HMR. I am using ngtools only for production and keeping old loader stack for dev.
Also I am keeping JIT under node. I don't know if there is any benefit of running AOT except maybe faster startup ?

Yea, I hit that bug under win10.
I had to add:
aotPlugin._compilerHost._resolve = function (path_to_resolve) { path_1 = require("path"); path_to_resolve = aotPlugin._compilerHost._normalizePath(path_to_resolve); if (path_to_resolve[0] == '.') { return aotPlugin._compilerHost._normalizePath(path_1.join(aotPlugin._compilerHost.getCurrentDirectory(), path_to_resolve)); } else if (path_to_resolve[0] == '/' || path_to_resolve.match(/^\w:\//)) { return path_to_resolve; } else { return aotPlugin._compilerHost._normalizePath(path_1.join(aotPlugin._compilerHost._basePath, path_to_resolve)); } };

[MarkPieszak]

The express engine I'm building here (which will be on npm soon) needs to be updated to only do AoT actually, doing JIT during SSR is just slower and there's no benefits to it. Still plenty to work on, never enough time! 😓

There's still HMR, it just doesn't hold the app state currently, didn't add back those hacks in.
PRs always welcome!