In my opinion Angular 2 is a great framework to work with. But as a developer, you know that you will also need great debug features in order to have a good experience developing.
There are multiple IDEs you can use to develop in Angular 2, but for this article I will talk about Visual Studio Code – VSCode. It has great typescript support and the auto-suggest knows about the angular 2 components.
Typescript is good when developing, the learning curve is smooth, but be aware that browsers don’t know how to run .ts files. This is why you will have to “transpile” your code. Transpiling is the process of converting your code from typescript to javascript(es6).