Mostly for my own quick-start Angular 2 projects, this is a bare bones starter that I will keep updated through all release candidates (currently rc.5) until officially released. This is basically the seed you will find in the official docs "5 Min Quickstart"; the exception is I have added the stylesheet at /assets/stylesheets/styles.css rather than Angular's proposed /styles.css.
Clone or download zip to a new directory.
From the directory root run npm install. Note that on Mac you will likely need to use sudo npm install.
However, this usually fails due to typings not installing properly, so the more sure way to install is: sudo npm install && sudo npm run typings install.
Run the app with npm start. See official docs for everything else.