Recently delved into Angular 2 and encountered an unusual issue. I kicked off using the Angular 2 Quickstart repository on GitHub and incorporated some components with templates.
For example:
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { LayoutComponent } from './layout.component';
@Component({
selector: 'app',
template: `<layout></layout>`,
})
export class AppComponent { name = 'Angular'; }
The transpiled TS (resulting JS file) appears like this:
"use strict";
var __decorate = (this && this.__decorate) || function (decorators, target, key, desc) {
var c = arguments.length, r = c < 3 ? target : desc === null ? desc = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(target, key) : desc, d;
if (typeof Reflect === "object" && typeof Reflect.decorate === "function") r = Reflect.decorate(decorators, target, key, desc);
else for (var i = decorators.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (d = decorators[i]) r = (c < 3 ? d(r) : c > 3 ? d(target, key, r) : d(target, key)) || r;
return c > 3 && r && Object.defineProperty(target, key, r), r;
};
var __metadata = (this && this.__metadata) || function (k, v) {
if (typeof Reflect === "object" && typeof Reflect.metadata === "function") return Reflect.metadata(k, v);
};
var core_1 = require('@angular/core');
var AppComponent = (function () {
function AppComponent() {
this.name = 'Angular';
}
AppComponent = __decorate([
core_1.Component({
selector: 'app',
template: "<layout></layout>",
}),
__metadata('design:paramtypes', [])
], AppComponent);
return AppComponent;
}());
exports.AppComponent = AppComponent;
//# sourceMappingURL=app.component.js.map
You can observe that there is a missing require call for the LayoutComponent, consequently, the Layout component cannot be found resulting in the absence of the layout tag (leading to a runtime JS error in the browser).
This issue persists with all my components regardless of the path (whether referencing the component in the same directory or one level below/above the current directory).
Why is tsc excluding those imports?