Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays

Question

I looked at similar questions, but none of them helped me. I am going to receive an object like the following:

[
  {
    \"id\": 1,
    \"name\": \"Safa\",
          


        

Answer 1

For anyone else with this issue that arrives here via Google, please check that the host element of the *ngFor directive is accurate. By this, I mean that I encountered this error and spent a long time researching fixes before realizing that I had put the *ngFor on an ng-template element instead of on my component I wanted to repeat.

Incorrect

  
<\ng-template>

Correct

I know this is an obvious mistake in hindsight, but I hope an answer here will save someone the headache I now have.