Angular and Typescript: Can't find names - Error: cannot find name

Question

I am using Angular (version 2) with TypeScript (version 1.6) and when I compile the code I get these errors:

Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/change_detection/parser/locals.d.ts(4,42): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(1,25): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'MapConstructor'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(2,25): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'SetConstructor'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(4,27): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(4,39): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(7,9): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(8,30): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(11,43): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(12,27): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(14,23): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(15,25): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(94,41): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(95,22): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/collection.d.ts(96,25): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/lang.d.ts(1,22): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'BrowserNodeGlobal'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/lang.d.ts(33,59): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(1,10): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(3,14): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(8,32): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(9,38): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(10,35): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(10,93): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(11,34): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(12,32): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(12,149): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/facade/promise.d.ts(13,43): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/element_injector.d.ts(72,32): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/element_injector.d.ts(74,17): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/element_injector.d.ts(78,184): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/element_injector.d.ts(83,182): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/element_injector.d.ts(107,37): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/proto_view_factory.d.ts(27,146): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(52,144): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(76,79): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(77,73): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(94,31): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(97,18): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(100,24): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(103,142): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/linker/view.d.ts(104,160): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/render/api.d.ts(281,74): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    node_modules/angular2/src/core/zone/ng_zone.d.ts(1,37): Error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Zone'.

This is the code:

import 'reflect-metadata';
import {bootstrap, Component, CORE_DIRECTIVES, FORM_DIRECTIVES} from 'angular2/core';
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: '<input type="text" [(ng-model)]="title" /><h1>{{title}}</h1>',
  directives: [ CORE_DIRECTIVES ]
})
class AppComponent {
  title :string;

  constructor() {
    this.title = 'hello angular 2';
  }
}
bootstrap(AppComponent);

Answer 1

There is a work-around mentioned in the changelog for 2.0.0-beta.6 (2016-02-11) (listed under breaking changes):

If you use --target=es5, you will need to add a line somewhere in your application (for example, at the top of the .ts file where you call bootstrap):

///<reference path="node_modules/angular2/typings/browser.d.ts"/>

(Note that if your file is not in the same directory as node_modules, you'll need to add one or more ../ to the start of that path.)

make sure you have the correct reference path, i needed to add ../ to the start to get this working.