Angular2 lazy loading module error 'cannot find module'

Angular Problem Overview

I was trying to find any solution for this error but nothing works for me. I have simple Angular2 App created with Angular-CLI. When I serve this app in browser I'm getting this error: EXCEPTION: Uncaught (in promise): Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'. I was trying using different path in loadChildren:

'/app/test.module'
'./app/test.module'
'./test.module'
'/src/app/test.module'

Folders

src/
  app/
    app-routing.module.ts
    app.component.ts
    app.module.ts
    test.component.ts
    test.module.ts

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';
    
import { RoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
    
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
    
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpModule,
    RoutingModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

app-routing.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
    
    
const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', loadChildren: '/app/test.module' }
];
    
@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule],
  providers: []
})
export class RoutingModule { }

test.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { TestComponent } from './test.component';
    
export const routes: Routes = [
    { path: '', component: TestComponent }
];
    
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    RouterModule.forChild(routes)
  ],
  exports: [TestComponent],
  declarations: [TestComponent]
})
export default class TestModule { }

stack trace

        error_handler.js:45EXCEPTION: Uncaught (in promise): Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'.ErrorHandler.handleError @ error_handler.js:45next @ application_ref.js:273schedulerFn @ async.js:82SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub @ Subscriber.js:223SafeSubscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:172Subscriber._next @ Subscriber.js:125Subscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:89Subject.next @ Subject.js:55EventEmitter.emit @ async.js:74onError @ ng_zone.js:120onHandleError @ ng_zone_impl.js:64ZoneDelegate.handleError @ zone.js:207Zone.runGuarded @ zone.js:113_loop_1 @ zone.js:379drainMicroTaskQueue @ zone.js:386
    2016-10-08 14:22:50.612 error_handler.js:50ORIGINAL STACKTRACE:ErrorHandler.handleError @ error_handler.js:50next @ application_ref.js:273schedulerFn @ async.js:82SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub @ Subscriber.js:223SafeSubscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:172Subscriber._next @ Subscriber.js:125Subscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:89Subject.next @ Subject.js:55EventEmitter.emit @ async.js:74onError @ ng_zone.js:120onHandleError @ ng_zone_impl.js:64ZoneDelegate.handleError @ zone.js:207Zone.runGuarded @ zone.js:113_loop_1 @ zone.js:379drainMicroTaskQueue @ zone.js:386
    2016-10-08 14:22:50.613 error_handler.js:51Error: Uncaught (in promise): Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'.
        at resolvePromise (zone.js:429)
        at zone.js:406
        at ZoneDelegate.invoke (zone.js:203)
        at Object.onInvoke (ng_zone_impl.js:43)
        at ZoneDelegate.invoke (zone.js:202)
        at Zone.run (zone.js:96)
        at zone.js:462
        at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (zone.js:236)
        at Object.onInvokeTask (ng_zone_impl.js:34)
        at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (zone.js:235)ErrorHandler.handleError @ error_handler.js:51next @ application_ref.js:273schedulerFn @ async.js:82SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub @ Subscriber.js:223SafeSubscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:172Subscriber._next @ Subscriber.js:125Subscriber.next @ Subscriber.js:89Subject.next @ Subject.js:55EventEmitter.emit @ async.js:74onError @ ng_zone.js:120onHandleError @ ng_zone_impl.js:64ZoneDelegate.handleError @ zone.js:207Zone.runGuarded @ zone.js:113_loop_1 @ zone.js:379drainMicroTaskQueue @ zone.js:386
    2016-10-08 14:22:50.614 zone.js:355Unhandled Promise rejection: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'. ; Zone: angular ; Task: Promise.then ; Value: Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'.(…) Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'.
        at webpackEmptyContext (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:49550:8)
        at SystemJsNgModuleLoader.loadAndCompile (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:57952:40)
        at SystemJsNgModuleLoader.load (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:57945:60)
        at RouterConfigLoader.loadModuleFactory (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:22354:128)
        at RouterConfigLoader.load (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:22346:81)
        at MergeMapSubscriber.project (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:61105:111)
        at MergeMapSubscriber._tryNext (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:32515:27)
        at MergeMapSubscriber._next (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:32505:18)
        at MergeMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:7085:18)
        at ScalarObservable._subscribe (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:48555:24)consoleError @ zone.js:355_loop_1 @ zone.js:382drainMicroTaskQueue @ zone.js:386
    2016-10-08 14:22:50.620 zone.js:357Error: Uncaught (in promise): Error: Cannot find module '/app/test.module'.(…)consoleError @ zone.js:357_loop_1 @ zone.js:382drainMicroTaskQueue @ zone.js:386

Angular Solutions

Solution 1 - Angular

restarting ng serve worked for me

Solution 2 - Angular

For newer Angular versions (10+?) lazy loading is done using the following syntax:

{ path: "foos", loadChildren: () => import ("./foos/foo.module").then(m => m.FooModule) },

I met a similar issue when working with Angular 4.4.5 and webpack and managed to fix it without using strings, but module type reference (much easier to write and less error prone):

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', loadChildren: () => TestModule }
];

I could not find the minimum version for Angular (loader) the supports this syntax.

A way that might work with AOT is to replace lambda syntax with a regular one:

export function getTestModule() { return TestModule; }

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', loadChildren: getTestModule }
];

Also check this issue (thanks to rey_coder).

Solution 3 - Angular

I have faced this same issue. I solved it by doing following 2 things:

In root module's route configuration, use loadChildren with a relative path to the lazy loaded angular module. The string is delimited with a # where the right side of split is the lazy loaded module's class name.

I have added ./ as prefix to the loadChildren string.

{ path:'user', loadChildren:'./app/user/user.module#UserModule'}

I am using webpack 2 and it needs a loader for Angular 2 that enables string-based module loading with the Angular Router. Add this to the project

yarn add angular-router-loader -D

then add the angular-router-loader to typescript loaders

loaders: [
  {
    test: /\.ts$/,
    loaders: [
    'awesome-typescript-loader',
    'angular-router-loader'
    ]
  }
]

and its working for me.

Solution 4 - Angular

For people who are using a recent Angular version (v9 in my case), you can setup your route with the following syntax declaration:

import { TestModule } from './modules/test.module';
const appRoutes: Routes = [
  { path: 'blogs', loadChildren: () => import('./modules/test.module').then(m => m.TestModule) },
];

// NgModule
// declarations
// imports
// providers
// bootstrap

export class AppModule { }

Another way (without making the import at the top):

    const appRoutes: Routes = [
      { path: 'blogs', loadChildren: () => import('./modules/test.module').then(m => m.TestModule) },
    ];

Solution 5 - Angular

Finally I found out that I need to import lazy loaded module in routing config this way:

const routes: Routes = [
   { path: '', loadChildren: 'app/test.module' }
];

without any / or ./in front of module path.

Solution 6 - Angular

In Angular 9 I did this and it worked for me: loadChildren: () => import('./items/items.module').then(m => m.ItemsModule)

You can have a look on official documentation

Solution 7 - Angular

I change this

{
            path: 'test',
            loadChildren: 'app/tests/test.module#TestModule'

}

for this

   {
        path: 'test', loadChildren: () => new Promise(resolve => {
            (require as any).ensure([], require => {
                resolve(require('app/tests/test.module').TestModule);
            })
        })
    },

And solved my problem.

Solution 8 - Angular

> It was worked for me by using. > > > ../app/ > > I solved this issue by using the suggestion popup in VS code. You can > also follow that. No need to go anywhere. (I Think, the path may vary in > every project.)

Solution 9 - Angular

I've been troubleshooting this for a a couple of hours on a project I've just taken over from. None of the above solutions were working, but then I realised that all the lazy-loaded modules had the .ts extension.

If anyone else is having issues, check if you need to change loadChildren: 'app/example.module.ts' to loadChildren: 'app/example.module'.

Solution 10 - Angular

In a use-case scenario to segregate a distinct feature (e.g. test.module.ts) from its root application (i.e. app.module.ts) through a lazily-loaded module, we could create the test module and it's components in a sub-folder (e.g. src/app/test/). The test-routing.module could be configured this way:

//test-routing.module.ts
//routes to test.component.ts as an example

import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { TestComponent } from './test.component';

const feature_test_routes: Routes = [
  
    { 
        path: '',
        component: TestComponent
    }

];

export const TestRoutingModule = RouterModule.forChild(feature_test_routes);

The "parent" module (app-routing.module.ts), would have a route that looks like this:

//app-routing.module.ts
//routes to http://localhost:4200/test

import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
const root_routes: Routes = [
  
    { 
        path: '',
        component: AppComponent, 
        children: [
            {
                path: 'test',
                loadChildren: './test/test.module#TestModule'
            }
        ]
    }

];

export const AppRoutingModule = RouterModule.forChild(root_routes);

This allows the root application and entry component, imperatively loaded, to subsequently lazy-load features from test.module.ts as a child when needed.

Solution 11 - Angular

make sure to include import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router'; in the module to load lazely

Solution 12 - Angular

I had a similar issue. I just restarted the server and it worked. :)

Solution 13 - Angular

I have solved my own issue. Don't put the .ts in the path name. Rather than using 'path/to/my/module.ts#MyModuleClass', use 'path/to/my/module#MyModuleClass'

Solution 14 - Angular

In my case the path shared the same route as one I declared elsewhere, assuming they would be relative paths. e.g like below in the

Not Working

Admin Module

    {
    path: 'organisation',
    canActivate: [AuthGuard],
      loadChildren: './organisation/organisation.module#AdminOrganisationModule',
    },

User Module

    {
    path: 'organisation',
    canActivate: [AuthGuard],
      loadChildren: './organisation/organisation.module#UserOrganisationModule',
    },

individually, when only one was declared, these were working fine, but not together as it complained about the ./organisation/organisation.module path , I changed both to the pattern below and it was ok.

Working

Admin Module

    {
    path: 'organisation',
    canActivate: [AuthGuard],
      loadChildren: '../admin/organisation/organisation.module#AdminOrganisationModule',
    },

User Module

        {
    path: 'organisation',
    canActivate: [AuthGuard],
      loadChildren: '../user/organisation/organisation.module#UserOrganisationModule',
    },

Solution 15 - Angular

You need to change

export default class TestModule { }

export class TestModule { }

That should fix your problems

Solution 16 - Angular

in my project i resolved the issue by changing the relative path to start from src

so instead of

loadChildren: () => import('./user/user.module') .then(m => m.UserModule)

I changed to:

loadChildren: () => import('./src/app/user/user.module') .then(m => m.UserModule)

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