diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/package.json b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/package.json
index a02b7da67ec7..08bdb6892f5f 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/package.json
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/package.json
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
     "zone.js": "^0.9.1"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
+    "@angular/compiler-cli": ">=8.0.0-beta.0 < 9.0.0",
     "typescript": ">=3.1 < 3.5"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/models/build-options.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/models/build-options.ts
index 46de94ad5e06..c35b6a1cad73 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/models/build-options.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/models/build-options.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 // TODO: cleanup this file, it's copied as is from Angular CLI.
 
 import { logging } from '@angular-devkit/core';
-import { ParsedCommandLine, ScriptTarget } from 'typescript';
+import { ParsedConfiguration } from '@angular/compiler-cli';
+import { ScriptTarget } from 'typescript';
 import {
   AssetPatternClass,
   Budget,
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ export interface WebpackConfigOptions<T = BuildOptions> {
   projectRoot: string;
   sourceRoot?: string;
   buildOptions: T;
-  tsConfig: ParsedCommandLine;
+  tsConfig: ParsedConfiguration;
   tsConfigPath: string;
   supportES2015: boolean;
 }
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/utilities/read-tsconfig.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/utilities/read-tsconfig.ts
index e4c607d7d294..9d58349af889 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/utilities/read-tsconfig.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/angular-cli-files/utilities/read-tsconfig.ts
@@ -5,24 +5,30 @@
  * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
-// tslint:disable
-// TODO: cleanup this file, it's copied as is from Angular CLI.
-import * as ts from 'typescript';
+
+import { ParsedConfiguration } from '@angular/compiler-cli';
 import * as path from 'path';
-import { requireProjectModule } from '../utilities/require-project-module';
 
-export function readTsconfig(tsconfigPath: string) {
-  const projectTs = requireProjectModule(path.dirname(tsconfigPath), 'typescript') as typeof ts;
-  const configResult = projectTs.readConfigFile(tsconfigPath, projectTs.sys.readFile);
-  const tsConfig = projectTs.parseJsonConfigFileContent(configResult.config, projectTs.sys,
-    path.dirname(tsconfigPath), undefined, tsconfigPath);
+/**
+ * Reads and parses a given TsConfig file.
+ *
+ * @param tsconfigPath - An absolute or relative path from 'workspaceRoot' of the tsconfig file.
+ * @param workspaceRoot - workspaceRoot root location when provided
+ * it will resolve 'tsconfigPath' from this path.
+ */
+export function readTsconfig(tsconfigPath: string, workspaceRoot?: string): ParsedConfiguration {
+  const tsConfigFullPath = workspaceRoot
+    ? path.resolve(workspaceRoot, tsconfigPath)
+    : tsconfigPath;
+
+  // We use 'ng' instead of 'ts' here because 'ts' is not aware of 'angularCompilerOptions'
+  // and will not merged them if they are at un upper level tsconfig file when using `extends`.
+  const ng: typeof import('@angular/compiler-cli') = require('@angular/compiler-cli');
 
-  if (tsConfig.errors.length > 0) {
-    throw new Error(
-      `Errors found while reading ${tsconfigPath}:\n  ${
-        tsConfig.errors.map(e => e.messageText).join('\n  ')
-      }`
-    )
+  const configResult = ng.readConfiguration(tsConfigFullPath);
+  if (configResult.errors && configResult.errors.length) {
+    throw new Error(ng.formatDiagnostics(configResult.errors));
   }
-  return tsConfig;
+
+  return configResult;
 }
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/browser/index.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/browser/index.ts
index c399c5c4be7f..7b9d192ddcb2 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/browser/index.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/browser/index.ts
@@ -190,9 +190,7 @@ export function buildWebpackBrowser(
         normalize(workspace.getProject(projectName).root),
       );
 
-      const tsConfigPath = path.resolve(getSystemPath(workspace.root), options.tsConfig);
-      const tsConfig = readTsconfig(tsConfigPath);
-
+      const tsConfig = readTsconfig(options.tsConfig, context.workspaceRoot);
       const target = tsConfig.options.target || ScriptTarget.ES5;
       const buildBrowserFeatures = new BuildBrowserFeatures(
         getSystemPath(projectRoot),
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/extract-i18n/index.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/extract-i18n/index.ts
index 93b6db07b017..70b80c95034b 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/extract-i18n/index.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/extract-i18n/index.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   getStatsConfig,
   getStylesConfig,
 } from '../angular-cli-files/models/webpack-configs';
+import { readTsconfig } from '../angular-cli-files/utilities/read-tsconfig';
 import { statsErrorsToString, statsWarningsToString } from '../angular-cli-files/utilities/stats';
 import { Schema as BrowserBuilderOptions } from '../browser/schema';
 import { Version } from '../utils/version';
@@ -58,6 +59,15 @@ async function execute(options: ExtractI18nBuilderOptions, context: BuilderConte
     await context.getBuilderNameForTarget(browserTarget),
   );
 
+  // FIXME: i18n is not yet implemented in Ivy
+  // We should display a warning and exit gracefully.
+  const { options: compilerOptions } = readTsconfig(browserOptions.tsConfig, context.workspaceRoot);
+  if (compilerOptions.enableIvy) {
+    context.logger.warn('We are sorry but i18n is not yet implemented in Ivy.');
+
+    return { success: true };
+  }
+
   // We need to determine the outFile name so that AngularCompiler can retrieve it.
   let outFile = options.outFile || getI18nOutfile(options.i18nFormat);
   if (options.outputPath) {