Before getting started, I recommend looking at using https://cmder.net/ for Command Editor.  

Prerequisites:

1. Angular installed globally: 

   npm install -g @angular/cli

2. Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Community (or other full version)
3. Node.js v. 8.10.0 or higher (https://nodejs.org/en/download/) to check current version, run command: 

   node -v

Steps to create project:

1. Create folder for the project, in my case "NgCore"
2. Run the following command from within the project folder:  

   ng new NgCoreApp

3. Run the following command from withing the "NgCoreApp" folder: 

   ng build

4. Run the app from the "dist" folder (created by the "ng build")

When compiling Angular 2 application I received compile warning "Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression" when using the require() method with a variable vs. literal string value (see examples below).

This throws compile warning:

let path = 'path_to_item';

let item = require(path);

This does not throw compile warning:

let item = require('path_to_item');

Issue with component level styles not working, import "ViewEncapsulation: from @angular/core and add encapsulation: ViewEncapsoulation.None to the @Component decorator as shown below.

import { Component, OnInit, ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';

@Component({

    selector: 'app-demo',

    templateUrl: './demo.component.html',

    styleUrls: ['./demo.component.css'],

    encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None

})

Navigate a JSON object by a dotted string path (e.g. "somePath.subPath.anotherSubPath").

console.log('somePath.subPath.anotherSubPath'.split('.').reduce((o, i) => o[i], jsonObject));

Take a dotted string (e.g. "someThing.someThingElse.another") and convert first letter of each dotted component to upper or lower case.

    dottedToUpper(str) {
        str = str.replace(/\./g, ' ');
        str = str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function (txt) {
            return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1);
        });
        return str.replace(/ /g, '.');
    }
    dottedToLower(str) {
        str = str.replace(/\./g, ' ');
        str = str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function (txt) {
            return txt.charAt(0).toLowerCase() + txt.substr(1);
        });
        return str.replace(/ /g, '.');
    }