I have an Angular2 component in that component it currently has a bunch fields that have @Input() applied before them to allow binding to that property, i.e. @Input() allowDay: boolean; What I would like to do is actually bind to a property with get/set, so that I can do some other logic in the setter, something like the following _allowDay: boolean; get allowDay(): boolean { return this._allowDay; } set allowDay(value: boolean) { this._allowDay = value; this.updatePeriodTypes(); } how would I do this in Angular2? Based on Thierry Templier suggestion I changed it to, but that throws the error Can't bind to 'allowDay' since it isn't a known native property : //@Input() allowDay: boolean; _allowDay: boolean; get allowDay(): boolean { return this._allowDay; } @Input('allowDay') set allowDay(value: boolean) { this._allowDay = value; this.updatePeriodTypes(); } Continue reading...