Component is part of the declaration of 2 modules

I try to build an ionic 2 app. When I try the app in the browser with ionic serve or launch it on an emulator everything works fine.

But when I try to build it every time the error

ionic-app-script tast: "build"
Error Type AddEvent in "PATH"/add.event.ts is part of the declarations of 2 modules: AppModule in "PATH"/app.modules.ts and AddEvent in "PATH"/add-event.module.ts.
Please consider moving AddEvent in "PATH"/add-event.ts to a higher module that imports AppModule in "PATH"/app.module.ts and AddEventModule.
You can also create a new NgModule that exports and includes AddEvent then import that NgModule in AppModule and AddEventModule

my AppModule is

import { NgModule, ErrorHandler } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { IonicApp, IonicModule, IonicErrorHandler } from 'ionic-angular';
import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';
import { MyApp } from './app.component';
import { Eventdata } from '../providers/eventdata';
import { AuthProvider } from '../providers/auth-provider';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';

import { HomePage } from '../pages/home/home';
import { Login } from '../pages/login/login';
import { Register } from '../pages/register/register';
import { AddEvent } from '../pages/add-event/add-event';
import { EventDetails } from '../pages/event-details/event-details';

import { StatusBar } from '@ionic-native/status-bar';
import { SplashScreen } from '@ionic-native/splash-screen';
   

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    MyApp,
    HomePage,
    Login,
    Register,
    AddEvent,
    EventDetails
    
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    IonicModule.forRoot(MyApp),
    HttpModule,
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(config)
  ],
  bootstrap: [IonicApp],
  entryComponents: [
    MyApp,
    HomePage,
    Login,
    Register,
    AddEvent,
    EventDetails
  ],
  providers: [
    StatusBar,
    SplashScreen,
    {provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler}, Eventdata, AuthProvider
  ]
})
export class AppModule {}

and my add-event.module.ts is

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { IonicPageModule } from 'ionic-angular';
import { AddEvent } from './add-event';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AddEvent,
  ],
  imports: [
    IonicPageModule.forChild(AddEvent),
  ],
  exports: [
    AddEvent
  ]
})
export class AddEventModule {}

I understand that I have to remove one of the declarations, but I don't know how.

If I remove the declaration from AppModule I get an Error that the Login Page is not found, while running ionic serve

Solution 1:

Remove the declaration from AppModule, but update the AppModule configuration to import your AddEventModule.

.....
import { AddEventModule } from './add-event.module';  // <-- don't forget to import the AddEventModule class

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    MyApp,
    HomePage,
    Login,
    Register,
    //AddEvent,  <--- remove this
    EventDetails

  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    IonicModule.forRoot(MyApp),
    HttpModule,
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(config),
    AddEventModule,  // <--- add this import here
  ],
  bootstrap: [IonicApp],
  entryComponents: [
    MyApp,
    HomePage,
    Login,
    Register,
    AddEvent,
    EventDetails
  ],
  providers: [
    StatusBar,
    SplashScreen,
    {provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler}, Eventdata, AuthProvider
  ]
})
export class AppModule {}

Also,

Note that it's important that your AddEventModule exports the AddEvent component if you want to use it outside that module. Luckily, you already have that configured, but if it was omitted, you would've gotten an error if you tried to use the AddEvent component in another component of your AppModule

Solution 2:

Some people using Lazy loading are going to stumble across this page.

Here is what I did to fix sharing a directive.

1. create a new shared module

shared.module.ts

import { NgModule, Directive,OnInit, EventEmitter, Output, OnDestroy, Input,ElementRef,Renderer } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';

import { SortDirective } from './sort-directive';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
  ],
  declarations: [
  SortDirective
  ],
  exports: [
    SortDirective
  ]
})

export class SharedModule { }

Then in app.module and your other module(s)

import {SharedModule} from '../directives/shared.module'
...

@NgModule({
   imports: [
       SharedModule
       ....
       ....
 ]
})
export class WhateverModule { }

Solution 3:

Solution is very simple. Find *.module.ts files and comment declarations. In your case find addevent.module.ts file and remove/comment one line below:

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    // AddEvent, <-- Comment or Remove This Line
  ],
  imports: [
    IonicPageModule.forChild(AddEvent),
  ],
})

This solution worked in ionic 3 for pages that generated by ionic-cli and works in both ionic serve and ionic cordova build android --prod --release commands!

Be happy...