ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'nativeElement' of undefined

Question

i am new to angular 2 and i work on image cropping plugin and i want to display the image on canvas. here my html code

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-sm-6">
     <canvas id="layout" width="400" height="300">
        This text is displayed if your browser does not support HTML5 Canvas.
     </canvas>

and here is my typescript file

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
selector: 'app-four',
templateUrl: './four.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./four.component.css']
})
export class FourComponent implements OnInit {
image: HTMLImageElement;
profPic: any;
context: CanvasRenderingContext2D;

constructor() { }
@ViewChild('layout') canvas;
@ViewChild('photo') photo;

ngOnInit() {
const _canvas = this.canvas.nativeElement;
//let photo = this.photo.nativeElement;
this.context = (<HTMLCanvasElement>_canvas).getContext('2d');
  this.image = new Image();
  this.image.src = '../../assets/images/1.jpg';

this.context.drawImage(this.image,20,20,500,260);

}
}

and i have error

ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'nativeElement' of undefined

please help me to fix this

thank you

Answer 1

Make layout local template variable

 <canvas #layout id="layout" width="400" height="300">
        This text is displayed if your browser does not support HTML5 Canvas.
     </canvas>

WORKING DEMO