Angular 2 is the long awaited sequal to the incredibly popular AngularJS. This pre-compiler is a hands on introduction to Angular 2. This is a hand on, lab based approached to getting up to speed. Each lab consists a demonstration of one or more concepts, followed by a starting point. Solutions to each lab are also provided. We will go over everyting that a developer will need to be productive in Angular 2, including components, directives, pipes, services, dependency injection, as well as overviews of RxJS and TypeScript.