Angular generates a lot of trash from a .ts file. app.component.js app.component.spec.js.map app.component.js.map app.component.spec.ts app.component.spec.js Is there any simple way to delete of that, a lot of build systems support clean, make clean git clean How do you do this in angular My test case. Download Angular's Hero Demo toh-3 Unzip it Jump into the directory Run npm install Run npm start Now from the main.ts you now have main.js and main.js.map In my own project, where I'm working along with the angular-cli, I actually have .spec files too. Continue reading...