document.getElementById replacement in angular4 / typescript?

You can tag your DOM element using #someTag, then get it with @ViewChild('someTag').

See complete example:

import {AfterViewInit, Component, ElementRef, ViewChild} from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app',
    template: `
        <div #myDiv>Some text</div>
    `,
})
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild('myDiv') myDiv: ElementRef;

    ngAfterViewInit() {
        console.log(this.myDiv.nativeElement.innerHTML);
    }
}

console.log will print Some text.

You can just inject the DOCUMENT token into the constructor and use the same functions on it

import { Inject }  from '@angular/core';
import { DOCUMENT } from '@angular/common'; 

@Component({...})
export class AppCmp {
   constructor(@Inject(DOCUMENT) document: Document) {
      document.getElementById('el');
   }
}

Or if the element you want to get is in that component, you can use template references.