Chart.js not showing in Angular2 if it doesn't exist on the main page

Question

It seems fine whenever I dump the chart to the main app.component.html, but as soon as I use it in a child component and have the app routed to it, the chart doesn\'t show u

Answer 1

Ok, so here's how I solved the issue I was having. I created a new canvas component with just the canvas element and imported my chart directive to the new component. After that, I used the DynamicComponentLoader class to dynamically load my component whenever I create an instance of my home component.

New home.component.ts:

import {Component, DynamicComponentLoader, Injector} from 'angular2/core';
import {TopicsComponent} from './topics.component';
import {CanvasComponent} from './canvas.component';

@Component({
    selector: 'home',
    templateUrl: 'app/home.component.html',
    directives: [TopicsComponent, CanvasComponent]
})

export class HomeComponent { 
    constructor(dcl: DynamicComponentLoader, injector: Injector) {
        dcl.loadAsRoot(CanvasComponent, '#chartInsert', injector);
    }
}

New home.component.html

  



    

        
   
        
  
        

    

    

        

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New canvas.component.ts

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
import {ChartDirective} from './chart.directive';

@Component({
    selector: 'canvas-component',
    template: '',
    directives: [ChartDirective]
})

export class CanvasComponent { }

I hope this can help someone out.