This lesson is an introductory tour on Angular 2 directives. This is an extremely powerful feature of Angular 2 that often remains underused. Its very powerful and and if used correctly it can be used to create functionality that is even more reusable than components themselves.

We are going to learn about the core directives that Angular 2 provides out of the box, and we will learn how to write our own directives. We will finish with an exercise: we will build our own directive.