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Angular2 Selector did not match any elements in nested Components

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I have two nested @Components en angular 2. The view renders just fine but it always throws a javascript error the first time. Here is my code in Typescript.

App HTML:

<body>
    <my-app>loading...</my-app>
</body>

App Component:

import {bootstrap, Component} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {CanvasComponent} from "./CanvasComponent";

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
      <h1>{{title}}</h1>
      <h2>My Games</h2>
      <div>
        <my-canvas></my-canvas>
      </div>
  `,
  directives: [CanvasComponent]
})

class AppComponent {
}

bootstrap(AppComponent);

Canvas Component:

import {bootstrap, Component, View} from 'angular2/angular2';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-canvas'
})

@View({
  template: `
  <div>
    <span>Balls:</span>
    <div>{{canvas.length}}</div>
  </div>
  `
})

export class CanvasComponent {
  canvas = [1,2,3];
}

bootstrap(CanvasComponent);

The error is:

EXCEPTION: The selector "my-canvas" did not match any elements
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fos.alex Avatar asked Oct 23 '15 19:10

fos.alex


2 Answers

Remove bootstrap(CanvasComponent) from your CanvasComponent file. It's trying to bootstrap application second time using CanvasComponent as a root and looking for my-canvas element in your App HTML. Of course it can't find it.

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alexpods Avatar answered Nov 13 '22 16:11

alexpods


I fixed the issue by changing the name in the index.html, you should be sure that the tag in the index.html are the same selector that in the main component.

    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Angular 2 QuickStart</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/styles.css">
        <!-- 1. Load libraries -->
         <!-- Polyfill(s) for older browsers -->
        <script src="node_modules/core-js/client/shim.min.js"></script>
        <script src="node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js"></script>
        <script src="node_modules/reflect-metadata/Reflect.js"></script>
        <script src="node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.src.js"></script>
        <!-- 2. Configure SystemJS -->
        <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
        <script>
        System.import('app').catch(function(err){ console.error(err); });
        </script>
      </head>
      <!-- 3. Display the application -->

      <body>
        <my-app>Loading...</my-app> <!-- THIS TAG SHOULD BE THE SAME THAT THE SELECTOR IN THE MAIN COMPONENT -->
      </body>
    </html>

<!-- end snippet -->

  </body>
</html>
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Andres Hernandez Avatar answered Nov 13 '22 14:11

Andres Hernandez