Angular 2 : No NgModule metadata found

Question

I\'m brand new to Angular 2 and attempting to follow along with a video tutorial I found. Despite following all of the steps, Angular just won\'t work; I get the following e

Answer 1

Late answer, but this might help someone. I got the same error, tried out all the previously mentioned suggestions, banged my head against the wall, but nothing worked.

On careful observation, I noticed the following in app.module.ts:

imports: [
  BrowserModule,
  BrowserAnimationsModule,
  FormsModule,
  HttpClientModule,, // Redundant comma 
  CoreModule
];

So I banged my head some more. The extra comma, very innocently higlighted, by WebStorm, as a mild warning, wreaked havoc by inserting an empty slot in the Array. Watchout fot the elision trap ;)