Half off topic but I want just to add that Webstorm IDE has already quite a good NG2 support. For example you can jump from html to a component function via F12 or auto import unresolved statements. You see VS Code on many NG2 presentations. I think Webstorm helps more getting quicker into NG2. Also Angular-CLI helps a lot. I mention this here because many people seem to struggle with the boilerplate code.