Ionic 2: EXCEPTION: No provider for NavController

Question

i have a problem with my ionic 2/angular 2 app.

I got an app.ts where the hole "auth" part is implementet.

The code looks like this:

 import {Nav, Platform, Modal, ionicBootstrap} from "ionic-angular";
import {NavController} from "ionic-angular/index";
import {StatusBar} from "ionic-native";
import {Component, ViewChild} from "@angular/core";
import {AngularFire, FirebaseListObservable, FIREBASE_PROVIDERS, defaultFirebase} from "angularfire2";
import {HomePage} from "./pages/home/home";
import {AuthPage} from "./pages/auth/home/home";

@Component({
  templateUrl: "build/app.html",
})

class MyApp {
  @ViewChild(Nav) nav: Nav;

  authInfo: any;
  rootPage: any = HomePage;
  pages: Array<{title: string, component: any}>;

  constructor(private platform: Platform, private navCtrl: NavController, private af: AngularFire) {
    this.initializeApp();

    this.pages = [
      { title: "Home", component: HomePage }
    ];

  }

  initializeApp() {
    this.platform.ready().then(() => {
      // Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available.
      // Here you can do any higher level native things you might need.
      StatusBar.styleDefault();
    });
  }

  openPage(page) {
    this.nav.setRoot(page.component);
  }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.af.auth.subscribe(data => {
      if (data) {
        this.authInfo = data;
      } else {
        this.authInfo = null;
        this.showLoginModal();
      }
    });
  }

  logout() {
    if (this.authInfo) {
      this.af.auth.logout();
      return;
    }
  }

  showLoginModal() {
    let loginPage = Modal.create(AuthPage);
    this.navCtrl.present(loginPage);
  }
}

But now, when i try to run the app i get this message:

ORIGINAL EXCEPTION: No provider for NavController

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can not inject a NavController in a Root component via a constructor.

So, basically you can not do something like below:-

constructor(private nav: NavController){
}

This is how you can inject a NavController

@Controller({
  ....
})
class MyApp{
  @ViewChild('nav') nav: NavController;
  ....
  ....
  constructor(...){ // See, no NavController here
  }
  ....
}

And this is what Ionic docs has to say.

What if you want to control navigation from your root app component? You can't inject NavController because any components that are navigation controllers are children of the root component so they aren't available to be injected.

By adding a reference variable to the ion-nav, you can use @ViewChild to get an instance of the Nav component, which is a navigation controller (it extends NavController)