Angular 7: no compile errors, but blank screen

Question

I've been working on an Angular app for a couple months now, and recently I started seeing a condition where the app compiles without errors, but when it reloads in Chrome there's just a blank screen. Also, no errors in the console. When I look at the markup, I can see the tag for my root component, but nothing else renders. I'm fairly certain I should NOT see the tag for the root component, but rather the rendered HTML, right? So it loads index.html, then craps out without any indication of what the issue could be. I have been attempting to move my components out of app.module and into feature modules to clean things up, but when I reverse those changes I still can't get the app to load. I've tried stopping and restarting the live dev server, but still no joy.

I'd post code here, but there's a ton of code in this app, and I don't know where the problem is. Why would Angular refuse to render without any compile or console errors, or any indication of what I can do to fix this?? If anyone has any idea where I can start to look, I'll be happy to post code.

FYI, I'm using Angular CLI 7.2.3, Angular 7.2.2. I'm developing in Visual Studio Code with the latest updates on a Windows 10 machine. I should also say that this has happened a few times during development, but I was always able to figure out what was causing the problem.

Answer 1

As requested, here is my answer. It's a bit embarrassing, given that I've been doing web development for over 20 years, but I forgot that I had disabled some options in the Chrome debugger settings. So Angular WAS sending errors when I got the blank screens, I just couldn't see those errors because I had disabled them. Once I reset the options to the default for Chrome, I was able to see all of the errors causing the page not to render. I realized this when I loaded the app in IE Edge and was able to see the errors in the console. I figured if IE is showing me the errors, I must have disabled them in Chrome.