In Angular2 I have a component that doesnt require a template but I still get a template error

Question

This is the error I get:

No template specified for component PageNotFoundComponent Error: No template specified for component PageNotFoundComponent at DirectiveNormalizer.normalizeDirective

This module / component redirect user to homepage and logs them out if route doesnt exist e.g. **

This is my component:

import { Directive} from '@angular/core';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';

import { AuthService } from '../../services/authService/authService';

@Directive({
  selector: 'PageNotFoundComponent'
})

export class PageNotFoundDirective {
  constructor(_authService: AuthService, _router: Router){     
     _authService.isAuthenticated().then(() => {
        _router.navigate(['/home']);
     });
  }
}

This is my module

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

import { PageNotFoundDirective } from './pageNotFound.directive';
import { AuthService } from '../../services/authService/authService';

@NgModule({
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule],
  declarations: [PageNotFoundDirective],
  exports: [PageNotFoundDirective],
  providers: [AuthService]
})
export class PageNotFoundModule { }

This is my routes:

import { Route } from '@angular/router';
import { PageNotFoundDirective } from './index';

export const PageNotFoundRoutes: Route[] = [
  {
    path: '**',
    component: PageNotFoundDirective
  }
];

This is the current error I get:

(index):95 Error: (SystemJS) Could not compile 'PageNotFoundDirective' because it is not a component. Error: Could not compile 'PageNotFoundDirective' because it is not a component.

Answer 1

update

For a route you need a component (a directive can't be used here)

@Component({
  selector: 'PageNotFoundComponent',
  template: ''
})

original

There are no components without templates in Angular2

Change

 @Component({

to

 @Directive({

and you should get what you want.

Components are directives with a view.