Google's Angular 2 JavaScript framework finally arrives

Angular 2, the long-awaited rewrite of the popular JavaScript framework, is finally going live Thursday evening, Google said on Wednesday afternoon. The moves follows a beta release stage last December and a release candidate first offered in May.
With the final release, Google is offering a framework optimized for small payload size and performance, said Jules Kremer, technical program manager for Angular at the company. "With ahead-of-time compilation and built-in lazy loading, we've made sur