diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/systemjs.config.plunker.js b/public/docs/_examples/systemjs.config.plunker.js
index 203bd273ed..29a93a07c4 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/systemjs.config.plunker.js
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/systemjs.config.plunker.js
@@ -55,11 +55,15 @@
 
   var config = {
     // DEMO ONLY! REAL CODE SHOULD NOT TRANSPILE IN THE BROWSER
-    transpiler: 'typescript',
+    transpiler: 'ts',
     typescriptOptions: {
-      emitDecoratorMetadata: true
+      tsconfig: true
+    },
+    meta: {
+      'typescript': {
+        "exports": "ts"
+      }
     },
-
     map: map,
     packages: packages
   }
diff --git a/tools/plunker-builder/plunkerBuilder.js b/tools/plunker-builder/plunkerBuilder.js
index b2bf2c79d3..da1d3fd910 100644
--- a/tools/plunker-builder/plunkerBuilder.js
+++ b/tools/plunker-builder/plunkerBuilder.js
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ var mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
 var indexHtmlTranslator = require('./indexHtmlTranslator');
 var regionExtractor = require('../doc-shredder/regionExtractor');
 var COPYRIGHT, COPYRIGHT_JS, COPYRIGHT_HTML;
-var SYSTEM_JS_CONFIG; // content of systemjs.config.js for plunkers that use systemjs
+var SYSTEMJS_CONFIG; // content of systemjs.config.js for plunkers that use systemjs
+var TSCONFIG;  // content of tsconfig.json for plunkers that use systemjs
+
 
 module.exports = {
   buildPlunkers: buildPlunkers
@@ -82,18 +84,23 @@ function buildPlunkerFrom(configFileName, basePath, destPath ) {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Add plunker versions of systemjs.config and tsconfig.json
+ */
 function addSystemJsConfig(config, postData){
   if (config.basePath.indexOf('/ts') > -1) {
      // uses systemjs.config.js so add plunker version
      var relativeFileName = 'systemjs.config.js';
-     postData['files[' + relativeFileName + ']'] = SYSTEM_JS_CONFIG;
+     postData['files[' + relativeFileName + ']'] = SYSTEMJS_CONFIG;
+     postData['files[tsconfig.json]'] = TSCONFIG;
   }
 }
 
 function getSystemJsConfigPlunker(basePath) {
   // Assume plunker version is sibling of node_modules version
-  SYSTEM_JS_CONFIG = fs.readFileSync(basePath + '/systemjs.config.plunker.js', 'utf-8');
-  SYSTEM_JS_CONFIG +=  COPYRIGHT_JS_CSS;
+  SYSTEMJS_CONFIG = fs.readFileSync(basePath + '/systemjs.config.plunker.js', 'utf-8');
+  SYSTEMJS_CONFIG +=  COPYRIGHT_JS_CSS;
+  TSCONFIG = fs.readFileSync(basePath + '/tsconfig.json', 'utf-8');
 }
 
 function initConfigAndCollectFileNames(configFileName) {