How to apply filters to *ngFor?

Question

Apparently, Angular 2 will use pipes instead of filters as in Angular1 in conjunction with ng-for to filter results, although the implementation still seems to be vague, wit

Answer 1

I've created a plunker based off of the answers here and elsewhere.

Additionally I had to add an @Input, @ViewChild, and ElementRef of the and create and subscribe() to an observable of it.

Angular2 Search Filter: PLUNKR (UPDATE: plunker no longer works)