Getting Angular2 error 'No provider for Router! (RouterOutlet -> Router)' - angular-routing

Question

I use Angular2 alpha39 and Babel to transpile the ES6 JS file. I'm not using typescript.
I created a component which displays correctly. I added a router-outlet to the template. When I run the app, I get the error message:
No provider for Router! (RouterOutlet -> Router)
The call stack is:
Here is the snippet of code:
template:
.... // Removed for brevity
<div class="contenttext">
<router-outlet></router-outlet>
</div>
.... // Removed for brevity
Component file:
import { Component, View, bootstrap, OnInit } from 'angular2/angular2';
import { RouteConfig, RouterOutlet, RouterLink } from 'angular2/router';
import 'reflect-metadata';
import 'winjs';
#Component({
selector: 'dashboard-app'
})
#View({
templateUrl: '../js/dashboard.html',
directives: [ ContentComponent, FamiliesComponent, RouterOutlet, RouterLink ]
})
#RouteConfig([
{ path: '/employees', component: EmployeesComponent, as: 'employees'}
])
class DashboardAppComponent implements OnInit {
constructor() {
}
onInit() {
WinJS.UI.processAll().done(function() {
var splitView = document.querySelector(".splitView").winControl;
new WinJS.UI._WinKeyboard(splitView.paneElement);
})
}
}
bootstrap(DashboardAppComponent);

Answer 1

you have to use:
ROUTER_BINDINGS in your bootstrap.
in your index.html.
if possible use state i.e as "employees" in capitalize i.r as "Employees". (in alpha 42 i have solve one problem this way).
i hope this will surely help you.
--UPDATE--
after the relese of alpha41:
ROUTER_BINDINGS has been changed with ROUTER_PROVIDERS .
Router Aliases should be in the camel case manner.
for the Router-outler and router-link you just have to import ROUTER_DIRECTIVES in your directives property in the component annotation.
Router-link expects the value to be an array of route names. for more info. refer here .
for more info regarding Routing you may refer to this tutorial here .
---Update2---
Now ( as of alpha-49) router is exported as ng.router.
(According to alpha-47 all life cycle hooks renamed as.)
onActivate, onReuse, onDeactivate, canReuse, canDeactivate
To :--
routerOnActivate,routerOnReuse,routerOnDeactivate,routerCanReuse,routerCanDeactivate
---Update3---
router-link is changed to routerLink
and routeconfig property changed to:
{path: '/abc', component: ABC, as: 'abc'}
to:
{path: '/xyz' , component: XYZ, name: 'xyz'}
--Update 4 --
UPDATE TO ANGULAR2 RC
There are alot of changes has been made in routing in angular2 after RC some of them points i am going to mention here may help someone :-
angular2/router has been changed with #angular/router
(also you can use old functionality of routing using import of #angular/router-deprecated but as of now we have to use #angular/router).
#RouteConfig has been changed with #Routes .
for example :-
#Routes([
{path: '/crisis-center', component: CrisisListComponent},
{path: '/heroes', component: HeroListComponent}
])

Answer 2

2.0.0-alpha.36 (2015-08-31)
routerInjectables was renamed to ROUTER_BINDINGS
2.0.0-alpha.41 (2015-10-13)
ROUTER_BINDINGS was renamed to ROUTER_PROVIDERS
USE ROUTER_PROVIDERS
ROUTER_PROVIDERS is used to simplify bootstrapping the router.
It includes:
RouterRegistry - the collection of registered routes
LocationStrategy = PathLocationStrategy - match by path
ROUTER_PROVIDERS provides 'sane' defaults and should be used unless you need to need a different route LocationStrategy.
Change:
bootstrap(DashboardAppComponent);
To:
bootstrap(DashboardAppComponent, [
ROUTER_PROVIDERS
]);
Sources:
angular/commit/ccfadb9
angular/pr#4654
2.0.0-alpha.38 (2015-10-03)
Route aliases need to be CamelCase (technically PascalCase)
Note: this was mentioned already in Pardeep's answer under #3
If you want to include a link to a route in your template via router-link you have to make sure the alias (ie the name property) of the route is PascalCase.
If you use plan to use router-link modify the route to:
{ path: '/employees', component: EmployeesComponent, name: 'Employees'}
Then you can add the link in your template with:
<a [router-link]="['/Employees']">Employees Link</a>
RouterLink dynamically inserts a href that matches the route path.
Note: Reading the issue/pr it appears this change was made to prevent users from confusing the <route-link> binding with the route url
Sources:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/angular/IF3_UCJt340/6AgSF76XAwAJ
angular/issues#4318
angular/pr#4643
Tip:
If you want to simplify your view directives use ROUTER_DIRECTIVES
It includes:
RouterLink
RouterOutlet
Update:
In the near future, RouterOutlet/<router-outlet> will be renamed to RouterViewport/<router-viewport>
Source:
angular/issues#4679
Update 2:
The RouteConfig property as has been renamed to name
Source:
angular/commit/7d83959

Answer 3

Answer on Dec 23rd 2016 (Angular v2.4.1, Router v3.4.1 - should work for any NG v2.x.x + Router v3.x.x)
I just migrated three of our apps from the Webpack Starter Seed to Angular CLI (v1.0.0-beta.24) and hit this issue.
Only a tiny fraction of what's on the NG 2 massive router doc page is required:
An app-routing.module.ts file (typically in src/app/ folder) looking like this sample:
import { NgModule } from '#angular/core';
import { RouterModule, Routes } from '#angular/router';
const appRoutes: Routes = [
{ path: '', component: YourHomePageComponent },
{ path: 'next-page', component: NextComponent }
];
#NgModule({
imports: [
RouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes)
],
exports: [
RouterModule
]
})
export class AppRoutingModule {}
Import AppRoutingModule into your main module (typically src/app/app.module.ts):
#NgModule({
declarations: [
AppComponent
],
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule,
HttpModule,
AppRoutingModule // <--- The import you need to add
],
providers: [],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
Ensure you have <router-outlet></router-outlet> somewhere in your main html (often src/app/app.component.html) as this is where router content is injected.

Answer 4

Make sure you have router defined and declared in AppModule.
Example (look everywhere where routing is mentioned, ignore the rest):
app.routing.ts
import { ModuleWithProviders } from '#angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '#angular/router';
import { HeroesComponent } from './heroes.component';
import {DashboardComponent} from './dashboard.component';
import {HeroDetailComponent} from './hero-detail.component';
const appRoutes: Routes = [
{
path: 'heroes',
component: HeroesComponent
},
{
path: 'dashboard',
component: DashboardComponent
},
{
path: '',
redirectTo: '/dashboard',
pathMatch: 'full'
},
{
path: 'detail/:id',
component: HeroDetailComponent
},
];
export const routing: ModuleWithProviders = RouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes);
and app.module.ts:
import { NgModule } from '#angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '#angular/platform-browser';
import { FormsModule } from '#angular/forms';
import { HttpModule } from '#angular/http';
// Imports for loading & configuring the in-memory web api
import { InMemoryWebApiModule } from 'angular-in-memory-web-api';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { DashboardComponent } from './dashboard.component';
import { HeroesComponent } from './heroes.component';
import { HeroDetailComponent } from './hero-detail.component';
import { HeroService } from './hero.service';
import { routing } from './app.routing';
import './rxjs-extensions';
import {HeroSearchComponent} from './hero-search.component';
#NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule,
HttpModule,
routing
],
declarations: [
AppComponent,
DashboardComponent,
HeroDetailComponent,
HeroesComponent,
HeroSearchComponent
],
providers: [
HeroService,
],
bootstrap: [ AppComponent ]
})
export class AppModule {
}

Answer 5

This can save someone an hour:
You get this error if you don't even use routing (for example temporary, maybe you don't import routing config and router-outlet is commented out) BUT you are using Router or ActivatedRoute in some component constructor via dependency injection, like this:
#Component({...}})
export class SomeComponent {
constructor(private _router: Router, private _route: ActivatedRoute) {
//may be you are not using _route/_route at the moment at all!
}
...
}

Answer 6

You cant user Dependency Injection for Router if you dont define any routs!
To define route user something similar to following codes:
const loginRoutes: Routes = [
{path: 'foo/bar/baz', component: 'MyRootComponent'}
];
#NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule,
HttpModule,
JsonpModule,
RouterModule.forRoot(loginRoutes)
],
providers: [],
declarations: [
MyLoginComponent
],
bootstrap: [
MyLoginComponent
]
})
export class MyLoginModule
{
}