is there an easy way to start angular 2.0 project because I see I need to get ton of setup for each project b4 I can even touch the code (noob here)

I followed a tutorial from the a2 docs and it only took a few minutes for me. I already had node installed, but it was pretty straightforward from what I remember. I think jetbrains has some docs on it too if you use webstorm.

You'll want to get you some Visual Studio Code (to handle typescript stuff), node, yeoman, webpack and lots of tutorials

yeoman angular generator would be a good place to start

I tried a2, then u ran back to a1