Angular : Couldn't find a route declaration in /src/app/app-routing.module.ts

Question

When I try to add automatic routing for components generated using following command

ng generate module orders --route orders --module app.module

I get the error

Couldn't find a route declaration in /src/app/app-routing.module.ts.

app-routing.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Routes } from '@angular/router';


@NgModule({
  declarations: [],
  imports: [
    CommonModule
  ]
})
export class AppRoutingModule {

 }

I also tried adding this line the app-routing file

export const routes: Routes = []

Still problem persits.How to fix this error?

Answer 1

I faced the same problem when was using angular template. Solution was to write routing file name explicitly

ng generate module customers --route customers --module app.routing.ts

Answer 2

Try to use command ng generate module orders --route orders --module app-routing.module, as described in cli module documentation :

--route The route path for a lazy-loaded module. When supplied, creates a component in the new module, and adds the route to that component in the Routes array declared in the module provided in the --module option.

Looks like tutorial cli command (ng generate module customers --route customers --module app.module) works fine only while your file structure is close to default and it can easily find routes array.