Introduction Now that ASP.NET Core, Angular 2, and TypeScript 2 have all shipped final versions, it’s a great time to combine them all into one powerful rich web application platform. As well as just the basics of hosting a TypeScript-coded Angular 2 site on ASP.NET Core, the template includes: Server-side prerendering, so your UI can show up very quickly, even before the browser downloads your JavaScript code Webpack middleware integration, so that during development, you don’t need to keep rebuilding your client-side application, or even have to run a watcher tool in the background Hot module replacement, so that during development, whenever you edit a TypeScript file, a CSS file, or other client-side resource, your changes are pushed into the browser immediately without reloading the page (so you don’t lose your active debugging session, etc.) Fast and lean builds. In development, you don’t have to wait for webpack to re-analyse third-party code...