angular 5: templateRef.createEmbeddedView is not a function

Question

Here\'s the code I\'m trying to get to work (angular 5):

  import { Component, ViewChild, TemplateRef, ViewContainerRef } from \'@angular/core\';

@Component         


        

Answer 1

When you reference in the *ngIf, else clause can’t be any arbitrary component, but it must be a ng-template.

For eg,

in a component where you have a source code similar to this:

The resulting source code should look like this:

ref : https://techoverflow.net/2018/02/17/how-to-fix-angular-typeerror-templateref-createembeddedview-is-not-a-function/