Publishing Typescript 2.3 Modules to NPM for Angular 4 Consumption

There are related instructions in Writing NPM modules in Typescript , however it's dated and there are now a lot of different answers which may or may not work for angular 4. There's also a very good presentation by Jason Aden on youtube on how to publish Angular Components, but in this case I'm only interested in publishing vanilla typescript classes.

We have two classes:

export class Student{...} // inside src/Person.ts
export class Teacher{...} // inside src/Teacher.ts

Lets call this module university and assume that it can be installed by doing npm i --save university.

Inside the Angular 4 project that has university as a dependency we create a src/Schedule.ts class. How should the university module be configured WRT package.json, tsconfig.json, etc such that:

1) IDE (Visual Studio, Atom, etc.) get auto completion

2) The Student class can be imported by specifying import {Student} from 'university`;

3) If only Student is used, the rest of the university module is excluded by the Angular CLI production build (Tree shaking).

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