Inconsistencies in installing 3rd party libraries in Angular 2

Question

I'm working my way through Angular 2 and have run into a few issues with 3rd party libraries

1. Some libraries such as Firebase suggest using Webpack
2. Other libraries such as Material 2 only have instructions for installing using the Broccoli installer which generates the angular-build-cli file that Webpack doesn't create

How do I best go about including both libraries in my project? Should I simply stick with the Broccoli installer or are there any work arounds?

Answer 1

FYI the angular-cli build tool is moving away from broccoli and has a test branch for webpack.

You can install it using npm install angular-cli@1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.2

From there, you just need to install the material packages and typings. I believe that webpack is smart enough to know it needs to include files from the import statements. I've got moment.js and lodash added into my webpack project and it was a simple as installing them and their typings.

That being said, last I checked material was NOT working with RC6 as a result of the recent changes to how modules are imported into your application.