Angular 2 Ahead-of-Time Compiler with gulp-typescript

Question

Angular 2 rc 6 written in Typescript 2.0.2

I\'m trying to learn Ahead-of-Time compilation as outlined here. It seems simple enough:

Answer 1

I was trying to get this to work as well and William Gilmour's answer helped a lot.

I extended it a little to run a local ngc installation (like the angular 2 example that runs the one in node_modules/.bin), and which works both on Linux and Windows systems:

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var os = require('os');

gulp.task('build-ts', function (cb) {

    var cmd = os.platform() === 'win32' ? 
        'node_modules\\.bin\\ngc' : './node_modules/.bin/ngc';

    exec(cmd, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
        console.log(stdout);
        console.log(stderr);
        cb(err);
    });
});