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Error for getTemplateReferences (cannot read property 'name' of null)

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Hi! I have similiar issue to #182 (another TypeError though). Unfortunatelly, for now Angular Language Service doesn’t work for me at all. Here’s the error message I’m getting.

Angular Language Service: 5.0.0-beta.5 TypeScript: 2.4.2 Error for getTemplateRefrences: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘name’ of null at CompileMetadataResolver._getEntryComponentMetadata (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:9258:38) at C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:8915:53 at Array.map (native) at CompileMetadataResolver.getNgModuleMetadata (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:8915:18) at addNgModule (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:16824:41) at C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:16835:14 at Array.forEach (native) at _createNgModules (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:16834:26) at analyzeNgModules (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:16731:14) at TypeScriptServiceHost.ensureAnalyzedModules (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules@angular\language-service\bundles\language-service.umd.js:39118:17) getTemplateRefrences: 6365ms SERVER ERROR: Cannot read property ‘length’ of null TypeError: Cannot read property ‘length’ of null at Project.updateFileMap (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:797:94) at Project.updateGraph (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:815:14) at Project.finishGraph (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:807:14) at ProjectService.openConfigFile (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:1634:17) at ProjectService.openOrUpdateConfiguredProjectForFile (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:1486:41) at ProjectService.openClientFile (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\editorServices.js:1404:23) at C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\documents.js:135:47 at TextDocuments.logErrors (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\documents.js:235:13) at C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\documents.js:131:74 at handleNotification (C:\Users\Acer01.vscode\extensions\Angular.ng-template-0.1.7\server\node_modules\vscode-jsonrpc\lib\main.js:353:21) [Error - 08:27:03] Notification handler ‘textDocument/didOpen’ failed with message: Cannot read property ‘length’ of null

tsconfig.js

  "compileOnSave": false,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "./dist/out-tsc",
    "baseUrl": "src",
    "paths": {
      "@app/common": ["app/common"],
      ...
    },
    "sourceMap": true,
    "declaration": false,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "target": "es5",
    "typeRoots": [
      "node_modules/@types"
    ],
    "lib": [
      "es2016",
      "dom"
    ]
  }
}