How to prepare release version with SystemJS and Gulp?

You will get ” Unexpected anonymous System.register call” because the references are not being loaded in the correct order. I use JSPM to properly build my angular app for production. There are 4 parts to the process.

Part 1: Compile your typescript files

var ts = require("gulp-typescript");
var tsProject = ts.createProject("./App/tsconfig.json");
gulp.task("compile:ts", function () {
    var tsResult = tsProject.src()
        .pipe(ts(tsProject));
    tsResult.js.pipe(gulp.dest("./wwwroot/app"));

});

Part 2: Configure config.js (to tell JSPM how to bundle your app):

System.config({
  baseURL: "https://stackoverflow.com/",
  defaultJSExtensions: true,
  paths: {
    "npm:*": "jspm_packages/npm/*",
    "github:*": "jspm_packages/github/*",
    "node_modules*": "node_modules/*"
  },
  map: {
    'app': 'app',
    'rxjs': 'node_modules/rxjs',
    '@angular': 'node_modules/@angular'
  },
  packages: {
    'app': { main: 'bootDesktop.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    'rxjs': { defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/common': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/compiler': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/core': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/http': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/platform-browser': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/router': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/router-deprecated': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/testing': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' },
    '@angular/upgrade': { main: 'index.js', defaultExtension: 'js' }
  }


});

Part 3: Use gulp-jspm-build to bundle up your app (I was previously using gulp-jspm but it was causing errors, so I switched to gulp-jspm-build):

var jspm = require('gulp-jspm-build');
gulp.task("jspm_bundle", function () {
return jspm({
    bundleOptions: {
        minify: true,
        mangle: false
    },
    bundleSfx: true,
    bundles: [
        { src: './wwwroot/app/appBoot.js', dst: 'boot.bundle.min.js' }
    ]
})
.pipe(gulp.dest('./wwwroot/js-temp'));


});
//this will create a file called boot.bundle.min.js
//note I have set jspm to create a self-executing bundle
//I put mangle to false because mangling was causing errors 

4: Now concat all your already minified assets:

gulp.task("min:js", ["jspm_bundle"], function () {
    //this only concats boot.bundle.min.js
    //and dependencies.min.js which has already been minified such as es6-shim.js
    var files = [
        "./wwwroot/js-temp/dependencies.min.js",
        "./wwwroot/js-temp/boot.bundle.min.js"
    ];

    return gulp.src(files)
        .pipe(concat("boot.bundle.min.js"))
        .pipe(gulp.dest("./wwwroot/js"));

});

Finally, put one nice tidy script reference into your index.html:

<script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34614743/~/js/boot.bundle.min.js"> </script>

One of the nice features of this approach is that your bundled app will only contain the assets that are actually referenced in you import statements (jspm won’t bundle it if you don’t need it).

UPDATE: Revised config.js to conform to a Angular 2.0-rc.0 appp

UPDATE 2: tsconfig.json looks like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "declaration": false,
    "noLib": false,
    "target": "es5",
    "outDir": "wwwroot/app/"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "wwwroot"
  ]
}

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