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A few months ago I decided to try my hand at web development. Angular 2 was new and shiny at the moment, so I decided to download it and start building a website. Now, as someone who is primarily a <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/java-developer" target="_blank">Java developer</a>, this was an altogether new and very interesting experience. I followed the alleged “5 Minute Quick Start Guide” and after an hour and a half of wrangling with Angular 2 and its plethora of dependencies, I was able to get something up and running.