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

I found that the cause of this problem in my case, was that I've combined my Angular app with a node.js application in the same source tree, and in the root tsconfig.json I had:

"files": [ "./node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts" ]

I changed this to

"compilerOptions": { "types": ["node"] }

And then to prevent node types being uses in your angular app, add this to tsconfig.app.json:

"compilerOptions": { "types": [] }