The Typescript service will throw: Accessors are only available when targeting ECMAScript 5  The root level `tsconfig.json` needs any "target" over ES5 and Typescript will stop throwing errors. e.g.: `"target": "es5",` Wiki diff: https://github.com/jakeNiemiec/angular-cli/wiki/stories-rc.0-update/_compare/efe56cf9b6e19be290a2404527ee8f65b577106a...ee9348c302d1ea6e64f43ea7c157342cfb4d8d18