Angular 1.4 + ngNewRouter + ES6 : Cannot read property '$routeConfig' of undefined

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Angular 1.4 + ngNewRouter + ES6 : Cannot read property '$routeConfig' of undefined

1.5k views Asked by datatype_void At 20 June 2015 at 04:35

I am currently trying to throw together a basic working example of an Angular 1.4 app written with both the new router as well as ECMAScript 6. I have been fiddling with this code non stop and I don't understand why I am getting the error that is being thrown:

Failed to instantiate module bookShelf due to:
TypeError: Cannot read property '$routeConfig' of undefined

I have my angular app being bootstrapped in my index.html file as so:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Home</title>        
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">

        <ng-viewport></ng-viewport>
    </div>

    <script src="bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="bower_components/angular-new-router/dist/router.es5.js"></script>
    <script src="bower_components/angular-messages/angular-messages.js"></script>
    <script src="https://google.github.io/traceur-compiler/bin/traceur.js"></script>
    <script src="https://google.github.io/traceur-compiler/src/bootstrap.js"></script>

    <script type="module" src="app/bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

I have configuration for the 1.4 router as well as my angular module loading code in another file as such:

import { default as NerdController } from 'public/components/Nerd/Nerd.js';
import { default as MainController } from 'public/components/Main/Main.js';
import { default as NerdService } from 'public/services/NerdService.js';

var moduleName = 'bookShelf';

var app = angular.module(moduleName, ['ngNewRouter', NerdService])
  .config(['$componentLoaderProvider', SetTemplatesPath])
  .controller('AppController', ['$router', AppController])
  .controller(NerdController)
  .controller(MainController);


function SetTemplatesPath ($componentLoaderProvider) {

  $componentLoaderProvider.setTemplateMapping(name => `public/components/${name}/${name}.html`);
}

function AppController ($router) {

  $router.config([

    { path: '/', redirectTo: '/main' }, 
    { path: '/main', component: 'main' }, // component is template + controller from components folder
    { path: '/nerds', component: 'nerd' }

  ]);
}

export default moduleName;

And finally the actual bootstrapping file:

import { default as bookShelfModule} from './app/bookShelf.main.js';
angular.bootstrap(document, [bookShelfModule]);

I am at a total loss and any help would be much appreciated as I really want to start working with ES6 and the new router.

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There are 3 answers

LocalPCGuy On 20 June 2015 at 06:09

Basically, it didn't ship with Angular v1.4, so your success in getting it running may vary.

https://github.com/angular/router

A new router for Angular 1.5 and 2.0, written with TypeScript.

For now, the code has been moved to angular/angular. APIs are still rapidly changing, so I don't recommend using this in an important production app quite yet. (edited)

From the Weekly Status doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/150lerb1LmNLuau_a_EznPV1I1UHMTbEl61t4hZ7ZpS0/edit#

May 11th, 2015

(igor): router

Too many rough edges, not ready for v1.4. Work with Brian and Matias to improve it.

user3190401 On 13 November 2015 at 02:56

After hours of experimenting and tweaking i found that when you define the controller first and the code is after the controller definition cause this failure

if you move your AppController

function AppController ($router) {

  $router.config([

    { path: '/', redirectTo: '/main' }, 
    { path: '/main', component: 'main' }, // component is template + controller from components folder
    { path: '/nerds', component: 'nerd' }

  ]);
}

before this

var app = angular.module(moduleName, ['ngNewRouter', NerdService])
  .config(['$componentLoaderProvider', SetTemplatesPath])
  .controller('AppController', ['$router', AppController])
  .controller(NerdController)
  .controller(MainController);

then you will not see that issue.

Best practice is define the controller first then declare

Like wise angular.module(moduleName).controller(NerdController) also throws the same error. enter code hereangular.module(moduleName).controller('NerdController',NerdController) also throws the same

**datatype_void** · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-21 16:30:39

In order to get this example working, I needed to apply the AppController to the body tag in the index.html file, like so:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Home</title>        
</head>
<body ng-controller="AppController">
    <div class="container">

        <ng-viewport></ng-viewport>
    </div>

    <script src="bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="bower_components/angular-new-router/dist/router.es5.js"></script>
    <script src="bower_components/angular-messages/angular-messages.js"></script>
    <script src="https://google.github.io/traceur-compiler/bin/traceur.js"></script>
    <script src="https://google.github.io/traceur-compiler/src/bootstrap.js"></script>

    <script type="module" src="app/bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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