Typescript

Problem:

You are trying to compile your Angular 9.x application, but you see an error message like

app/my-component/my-component.component.ts:24:4 - error TS2554: Expected 2 arguments, but got 1.

24   @ViewChild(MyOtherComponent) myOtherComponent: MyOtherComponent;
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  ../node_modules/@angular/core/core.d.ts:7888:47
    7888     (selector: Type<any> | Function | string, opts: {
                                                       ~~~~~~~
    7889         read?: any;
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    7890         static: boolean;
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    7891     }): any;
         ~~~~~
    An argument for 'opts' was not provided.

Solution:

Find this line in your code at the location specified in the error message:

@ViewChild(MyOtherComponent) myOtherComponent: MyOtherComponent;

and add

{static: false}

as second argument to the @ViewChild() declaration:

@ViewChild(MyOtherComponent, {static: false}) myOtherComponent: MyOtherComponent;

In most cases, you want to use static: false. See this post on StackOverflow for details on when to use static: true as opposed to static: false.

Problem:

In your Angular2/4/5 application you see this error message:

Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute

Solution:

Look for a statement in the HTML angular template like this:

[formControl]="myCtrl"

The error message means that myCtrl can’t be found. Check if this variable is present in your class – it needs be a FormControl which you can import from @angular/forms:

import { FormControl } from '@angular/forms';

In my case, changing it to

[formControl]="myControl"

fixed the issue

Problem:

In your Angular2/4/5 application you’re getting the following error message:

No provider for ControlContainer ("<div class="recall-container mat-elevation-z8">

Solution:

You have not added the @angular/forms FormsModule to your module’s import list.

Go to your app.module.ts and add this line to the imports:

import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

and look for a line like this in your module definition:

imports: [ /* several import modules may be listed here */ ],

and add FormsModule like this (if there are already imports, add FormsModule to the list):

imports: [ FormsModule ],