Template parse error: Unexpected closing tag

See also Angular 2 router no base href set

https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/router.html

Add the base element just after the <head> tag. If the app folder is the application root, as it is for our application, set the href value exactly as shown here.

<base href="/">

Alternatively add

import {provide} from 'angular2/core';
import {APP_BASE_HREF} from 'angular2/router';

bootstrap(AppComponent, [
  ROUTER_PROVIDERS, 
  provide(APP_BASE_HREF, {useValue : '/' });
]); 

in your bootstrap.