FWIW, here is a datapoint. It’s not Ionic, but I do have an Angular2 application (using RC1) that uses chart.js version 2.1.2. I have the following line in a TypeScript file:
var Chart = require<any>('chart.js/src/chart');
I use @ViewChild
to grab the canvas
element, and pass its nativeElement
member as the first argument to the Chart
constructor. It works.