Angular 2 throwing error: Outlet is not activated

Question

I have set up my app so that I have a Recipe Book which has a list of Recipies which when I click on a Recipe it then shows the Recipe Details

Answer 1

This route is invalid and you should get an error for it.

{ path: '' },

A route either needs to have a component, a redirectTo, or children.

If an empty path route has no children it also should have pathMatch: 'full'.

I guess what you want is

{ path: '', component: DummyComponent, pathMatch: 'full' },

Where DummyComponent is a component with an empty view. You can reuse the same DummyComponent for all these paths.