Angular2-express-mongoose-gulp-node-typescript | AngularJS 2 Mean Stack | DB Client library

First of all I am not a big fan of making single repo for backend and frontend. That said, I cannot convince many people from doing so, I am pretty sure I cannot convince you too.

Now please go to - https://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter and pull the frontend project. for writing your server code you can build your own script in node js using the same code of gulp serve tasks. Say you wrote your server starting code in start-server.js

And in package.json you can wrtie command "node start-server.js" inside "start" script.

I strongly suggest to develop angular2 project in separate environment than your express server. It will make your life very easy.

Also compile your app with angular2's aot compiler and then serve your build folder with express server.