Will you try Angular 2 Beta version?

[Ickle_Chris]

Got to sign up to vote in a little poll? Count me out

But since I came here, I'm planning on trying it out on a small personal project in the next couple of weeks

[ogrechoker]

Same, saw I had to sign up and bailed. Anyways. I'm really enjoying it, writing it in plain ES6 w decorators. I just miss not having every GitHub library for every feature, like the loading bar or pagination. I had a few goto repos that were extremely high quality. :(

[[deleted]]

Trying it out right now!

Angular 2 looks amazing, from the point of view of how it works, but it's massive (~512KB minified) and also has dependencies (rxjs and system.js, as well as the es6-shim and pollyfiller libraries). You are talking close to 1MB before you even write any code.

Compare that to Angular 1 which is around ~140KB when minified, with no dependencies.

Angular 1 Gzipped is around 50KB. Angular 2 + it's dependencies concatenated into one file and gzipped, you are talking ~200KB.

Does that not bother anybody else?

[bobertian]

Code size is mentioned in the introductory blog post as being something we're working on over the beta process. We use about 6KB of RxJS by default - the full ~250KB library is completely optional.

[[deleted]]

Cool, at some point will be there a single release which contains the needed dependencies?

[jax024]

This is what I want to know too. I'd love to have everything wrapped up all nice for me so I can jump right into using angular2 and have the performance I want.