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JavaScript Angular Basics Angular Components Nesting Components

Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
1,686 Points
Posted by Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
1,686 Points

Error When Importing Entry Components

Hi Treehouse friends! I'm really stuck on a console error thrown when I try to import the EntryList component into app.module. The app attempts to import infinite instances of the component, and the console throws this error:

(unknown) EXCEPTION: Error in ./EntryListComponent class EntryListComponent - inline template:2:0 caused by: Maximum call stack size exceeded

Been trying to debug for over an hour, finally gave up and rewatched the video making sure to copy Andrew's code line-by-line, and still can't find the problem. Any help much appreciated!

App.module.ts:

import {NgModule} from '@angular/core';
import {BrowserModule} from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {AppComponent} from './app.component';
import {EntryListComponent} from './entries';

@NgModule({
    imports: [BrowserModule],
    declarations: [AppComponent, EntryListComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule{

}

Index.ts:

export * from './entry-list/entry-list.component';
export * from './entry/entry.component';

App.component.html:

<app-entry-list></app-entry-list>

Entry-list.component.ts:

import {Component} from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-entry-list',
    templateUrl: 'entry-list.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['entry-list.component.css']
})

export class EntryListComponent {

}

Entry-list.component.html:

Hello From Entry List Component HTML
<app-entry-list></app-entry-list>

2 Answers

Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
1,686 Points
Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
1,686 Points

Problem solved:

I had two <app-entry-list> tags, one in app.component.html, and one in entry-list.component.html. Obviously the referenced tag should only be in app.component.html, because that's the only component that the application bootstraps. Wow, what a headache for such an obvious mistake.

Marshall Bradley
Marshall Bradley
13,552 Points
Marshall Bradley
Marshall Bradley
13,552 Points

what may have been the problem was where you have

import {EntryListComponent} from './entries';

should be 

import { EntryListComponent, EntryComponent } from './entries';