angular - How to check Angular2 version with typescript

Question

I have written a simple app with angular2@2.0.0-alpha.11, and it works great. Now that I am testing it with the latest version of the alpha and beta avaible on npm, and I keep wondering if I really really changed or I am caching something.

I want to do something like the below on my root component

export class ChromeComponent {

  ngOnInit() {
    console.log('angular version');
  }
}

angular.version on the console return undefined

Answer 1

Update since 4.0.0-rc.1

Version is added for root selector in the DOM

Since angular2 version 2.3.0-rc.0 you can get version as follows:

import { VERSION } from '@angular/core';

export class AppComponent { 
  constructor() {
    console.log(VERSION.full); // print 2.3.0-rc.0
  }
}

Or you can just open browser console and check body tag