SystemJS support

[jeffwhelpley]

Right now Universal does not work with SystemJS. Need to do some research here to find the root cause.

[wesleycho]

I'll take a look at this

[manekinekko]

@jeffwhelpley @wesleycho this may be related...

Last week, I started a side POC getting universal run on Java 8 Nashorn. And I discovered that SystemJS is not supported on Nashorn. I opened an issue for that.
See it here: systemjs/systemjs#1113

[guybedford]

Just let me know if I can help here at all as well. Conditional package loading in SystemJS may come in handy here too.

[sullivanpt]

This issue description is vague, but I can say I had universal running against systemjs (without jspm) in the past https://github.com/sullivanpt/ng2-universal-seed/tree/systemjs. (I abandoned the branch because webpack/browserify gave a more consistent dependency experience on express.)

[jeffwhelpley]

Thanks for the feedback @sullivanpt. Hey, @gdi2290 and @manekinekko what were the issues you guys ran into with this?

[Codenator81]

@jeffwhelpley First when I use systemjs-builder and in systemjs.config.js

//...
var map = {
 'root': '', 
 'app': 'app', // 'dist',
 'rxjs': 'node_modules/rxjs',
 '@angular': 'node_modules/@angular',
 'angular2-universal': 'node_modules/angular2-universal/browser.js',
 'angular2-universal-polyfills': 'node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/polyfills.js'
 };
//...

and import bootstrap

import {bootstrap} from 'angular2-universal';

have error

Build error
{ Error on fetch for node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/common.js at file:///Users/alex/Sites/ng2/sampleTSexpress/universal-systemjs/node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/common.js
 Loading node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/browser/browser.js
 Loading node_modules/angular2-universal/browser.js
 Loading dist/client.js
 Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/alex/Sites/ng2/sampleTSexpress/universal-systemjs/node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/common.js'
 at Error (native)
 originalErr: 
 { Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/alex/Sites/ng2/sampleTSexpress/universal-systemjs/node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/common.js'
 at Error (native)
 errno: -2,
 code: 'ENOENT',
 syscall: 'open',
 path: '/Users/alex/Sites/ng2/sampleTSexpress/universal-systemjs/node_modules/angular2-universal/dist/common.js' } }

when build

[guybedford]

The above sounds like a standard Node compatibility problem - trying to load ../common as a directory require in Node through SystemJS when what is expected by SystemJS is ../common/index.js.

Alternatively this project could rewrite the require('../common') in dist/browser/browser.js to require('../common/index.js') and not explicitly rely on the directory require resolution.

[kukjevov]

Is there any progress on this? Is there any plan when this will be ready for use? Do you think that SystemJs will be usable with asp.net core server side?

Thank you

[jeffwhelpley]

Hi, @kukjevov, so this is still very high on our list, but it is currently not on the critical path for the full release. We have a couple high priority bugs and upgrades we are focused on now. Of course, if anyone from the community wants to help on this, please let @gdi2290 and I know and we can provide some guidance. Otherwise this will be a post-release item.