First day playing with angular2-meteor and going through the Socially tutorial app I noticed that it puts the imports directory in the client folder, whereas the official Meteor guidelines suggest a top level directory for imports?
Socially demo app guidance: https://www.angular-meteor.com/tutorials/socially/angular2/adding-removing-objects-and-angular-event-handling
Meteor Structure guidance: http://guide.meteor.com/structure.html#example-app-structure
Just wanted to see if the reason for placing in client folder was something to do with Angular2 or just a preference?
Secondly, if so, does that mean that Meteor picks up any directory called imports regardless of where it's saved for this purpose?
I believe it is just a matter of preference for the tutorial. Meteor will treat any /imports folder the same regardless of location. You can keep it in the /client folder or create a root level /imports folder. It doesn't really matter.