Angular2 too many file requests on load

Question

I'm making a website using Angular2 and I'm having what i suppose is an issue. On the first load of my angular page, SystemJS is making more than 500 hundred requests to retrieve every Angular2 file in angular2/src directory. In total, the first load downloads more than 4MB and it takes more than 14 seconds to start.

My index.html does the following scripts includes:

<script src="libs/angular2/bundles/angular2-polyfills.js"></script>
<script src="libs/systemjs/dist/system.src.js"></script>
<script src="libs/rxjs/bundles/Rx.js"></script>
<script src="libs/angular2/bundles/angular2.min.js"></script>
<script src="libs/angular2/bundles/http.dev.js"></script>
<script src="libs/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="libs/lodash/lodash.js"></script>
<script src="libs/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>

And my systemJs initialization code looks like this:

    <script>
      System.config({
        defaultJSExtensions: true,
        paths: {
          '*': 'libs/*',
          'app/*': 'app/*'
        },
        packageConfigPaths: ['libs/*/package.json'],
        packages: {
          app: {
            format: 'register',
            defaultExtension: 'js'
          }
        }
      });
      System.import('app/main')
            .then(null, console.error.bind(console));

    </script>

My public folder has the following structure:

.
├── img
├── styles
├── app
├── libs
|   └── angular2
|   └── systemjs
|   └── rxjs
|   └── jquery
|   └── lodash
|   └── bootstrap
└── index.html

A couple of screenshots of some of the js files that are being requested:

Is there a way to avoid all of those requests?

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem, was actually looking at this post for an answer. Here is what I did to solve the problem.

1. Modify your project to use webpack. Follow this short tutorial: Angular2 QuickStart SystemJS To Webpack
2. This method will give you a single javascript file however it is quite large (my project file was over 5MB) and needs to be minified. To do this I installed webpack globaly:npm install webpack -g. Once installed, run webpack -p from your apps root directory. This brought my file size down to about 700KB

From 20 seconds and 350 requests down to 3 seconds and 7 requests.