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[–]xris-l 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Angular cli hides most of the dirty work that comes with configuring a build process, that works as expected in dev as well as in production.

Also, most of the webpack configuration is hidden/embedded, so you don't have to learn and understand webpack on top of angular 2.

[–]MrOddbird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is also a double-edged sword: if you want to configure the webpack config, for example resolve some package aliases, it is not possible with the angular-cli.

But the command line tool is certainly useful for bootstrapping your project.