diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d8df2b1a1c..71b16e282d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 .project
 .classpath
 .c9/
+.vscode
 *.launch
 .settings/
 *.sublime-workspace
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
deleted file mode 100644
index ad8767b3e8..0000000000
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "vsicons.presets.angular": true
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts b/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index ecfdb56f8a..0000000000
--- a/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-import { DocsPage } from './app.po';
-
-describe('docs App', () => {
-  let page: DocsPage;
-
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    page = new DocsPage();
-  });
-
-  it('should display welcome message', () => {
-    page.navigateTo();
-    expect(page.getParagraphText()).toEqual('Welcome to app!');
-  });
-});
diff --git a/e2e/app.po.ts b/e2e/app.po.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index b9f7d28a0a..0000000000
--- a/e2e/app.po.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-import { browser, by, element } from 'protractor';
-
-export class DocsPage {
-  navigateTo() {
-    return browser.get('/');
-  }
-
-  getParagraphText() {
-    return element(by.css('app-root h1')).getText();
-  }
-}
diff --git a/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json b/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d9e5edf09..0000000000
--- a/e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "outDir": "../out-tsc/e2e",
-    "baseUrl": "./",
-    "module": "commonjs",
-    "target": "es5",
-    "types": [
-      "jasmine",
-      "jasminewd2",
-      "node"
-    ]
-  }
-}