did you register the component correctly? For recursive components, make sure to provide the "name" option

Solution 1:

If you're using a component within a component (e.g. something like this in the Vue DOM):

App
  MyComponent
   ADifferentComponent
     MyComponent

Here the issue is that MyComponent is both the parent and child of itself. This throws Vue into a loop, with each component depending on the other.

There's a few solutions to this:

 1. Globally register MyComponent

vue.component("MyComponent", MyComponent)

2. Using beforeCreate

beforeCreate: function () {
  this.$options.components.MyComponent = require('./MyComponent.vue').default
}

3. Move the import into a lambda function within the components object

components: {
  MyComponent: () => import('./MyComponent.vue')
}

My preference is the third option, it's the simplest tweak and fixes the issue in my case.

More info: Vue.js Official Docs — Handling Edge Cases: Circular References Between Components

Note: if you choose method's 2 or 3, in my instance I had to use this method in both the parent and child components to stop this issue arising.

Solution 2:

Since you have applied different name for the components:

components: {
      'i-tabs' : Tabs,
      'i-tab-pane': Tabpane
    }

You also need to have same name while you export: (Check to name in your Tabpane component)

name: 'Tabpane'

From the error, what I can say is you have not defined the name in your component Tabpane. Make sure to verify the name and it should work fine with no error.

Solution 3:

Wasted almost one hour, didn't find a solution, so I wanted to contribute =)

In my case, I was importing WRONGLY the component.. like below:

import { MyComponent } from './components/MyComponent'

But the CORRECT is (without curly braces):

import MyComponent from './components/MyComponent'