Exception: Can't bind to 'ngFor' since it isn't a known native property

Question

What am I doing wrong?

import {bootstrap, Component} from 'angular2/angular2'

@Component({
  selector: 'conf-talks',
  template: `<div *ngFor="talk of talks">
     {{talk.title}} by {{talk.speaker}}
     <p>{{talk.description}}
   </div>`
})
class ConfTalks {
  talks = [ {title: 't1', speaker: 'Brian', description: 'talk 1'},
            {title: 't2', speaker: 'Julie', description: 'talk 2'}];
}
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  directives: [ConfTalks],
  template: '<conf-talks></conf-talks>'
})
class App {}
bootstrap(App, [])

The error is

EXCEPTION: Template parse errors:
Can't bind to 'ngFor' since it isn't a known native property
("<div [ERROR ->]*ngFor="talk of talks">

Answer 1

I missed let in front of talk:

<div *ngFor="let talk of talks">

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Note that as of beta.17 usage of #... to declare local variables inside of structural directives like NgFor is deprecated. Use let instead.

<div *ngFor="#talk of talks"> now becomes <div *ngFor="let talk of talks">

Original answer:

I missed # in front of talk:

<div *ngFor="#talk of talks">

It is so easy to forget that #. I wish the Angular exception error message would instead say:
you forgot that # again.

Answer 2

Another typo leading to the OP's error could be using in:

<div *ngFor="let talk in talks">

You should use of instead:

<div *ngFor="let talk of talks">

Answer 3

This Statement used in Angular2 Beta version.....

Hereafter use let instead of #

let keyword is used to declare local variable

Answer 4

In my case, it was a small letter f. I'm sharing this answer just because this is the first result on google

make sure to write *ngFor

Answer 5

For me, to cut a long story short, I had inadvertently downgraded to angular-beta-16.

The let ... syntax is ONLY valid in 2.0.0-beta.17+

If you try the let syntax on anything below this version. You will generate this error.

Either upgrade to angular-beta-17 or use the #item in items syntax.

Answer 6

In my case I made the mistake of copying *ng-for= from the docs.

https://angular.io/guide/user-input

Correct me if I am wrong. But it seems *ng-for= has been changed to *ngFor=

Answer 7

In angular 7 got this fixed by adding these lines to .module.ts file:

import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common'; imports: [CommonModule]

Answer 8

I forgot to annotate my component with "@Input" (Doh!)

book-list.component.html (Offending code):

<app-book-item
  *ngFor="let book of book$ | async"
  [book]="book">  <-- Can't bind to 'book' since it isn't a known property of 'app-book-item'
</app-book-item>

Corrected version of book-item.component.ts:

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';

import { Book } from '../model/book';
import { BookService } from '../services/book.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-book-item',
  templateUrl: './book-item.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./book-item.component.css']
})
export class BookItemComponent implements OnInit {

  @Input()
  public book: Book;

  constructor(private bookService: BookService)  { }

  ngOnInit() {}

}

Answer 9

Also don't try to use pure TypeScript in this... I wanted to more correspond to for usage and use *ngFor="const filter of filters" and got the ngFor not a known property error. Just replacing const by let is working.

As @alexander-abakumov said for the of replaced by in.