This example Angular 2 app is written with TypeScript has has minimal tooling required to get up and running. It uses SystemJS as the module loader, and imports the application bootstrap file to initialize the Angular app.
git clone https://github.com/angular-in-action/create-app-component.git
cd create-app-component
npm install
npm start
The commands above will download and initialize the scaffolding for an Angular 2 app. It uses the simple live server to serve the files, and uses TypeScript to transpile to JavaScript.