Angular2 Exception: Can’t bind to ‘routerLink’ since it isn’t a known native property

Question

>=RC.5

import the RouterModule
See also https://angular.io/guide/router

@NgModule({ 
  imports: [RouterModule],
  ...
})

>=RC.2

app.routes.ts

import { provideRouter, RouterConfig } from '@angular/router';

export const routes: RouterConfig = [
  ...
];

export const APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS = [provideRouter(routes)];

main.ts

import { bootstrap } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS } from './app.routes';

bootstrap(AppComponent, [APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS]);

<=RC.1

Your code is missing

  @Component({
    ...
    directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES],
    ...)}

You can’t use directives like routerLink or router-outlet without making them known to your component.

While directive names were changed to be case-sensitive in Angular2, elements still use - in the name like <router-outlet> to be compatible with the web-components spec which require a - in the name of custom elements.

register globally

To make ROUTER_DIRECTIVES globally available, add this provider to bootstrap(...):

provide(PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES, {useValue: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES], multi: true})

then it’s no longer necessary to add ROUTER_DIRECTIVES to each component.

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