I found that the reason mine brought an error was due module set as “commonjs” in my tsconfig.json file, changing it to system fixed it, now it looks like below
{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "es5",
"module": "system",
"declaration": false,
"noImplicitAny": false,
"removeComments": true,
"noLib": false,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"sourceMap": true
},
"exclude": [
"node_modules"
]
}
EDIT
This answer was based on Angular 2 beta 17 .Based on the time of this answer and the rapid changes angular 2 has undergone, this may not work anymore.