Platform: Error: Cannot convert undefined or null to object

[ValeryVS]

I'm submitting a...

[ ] Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release)
[x] Bug report  
[ ] Feature request
[ ] Documentation issue or request
[ ] Support request

What is the current behavior?

With AOT build Error Cannot convert undefined or null to object is thrown at this line
https://github.com/ngrx/platform/blob/48a2381c212d5dd3fa2b9435776c1aaa60734235/modules/store/src/utils.ts#L16
because reducers is null.

  const reducerKeys = Object.keys(reducers);

Expected behavior:

I'm injecting reducers as described here
https://github.com/ngrx/platform/blob/master/docs/store/api.md#injecting-reducers

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions:

https://github.com/ValeryVS/angular-storage-experiment/blob/02fd926e17547abfdb213b3d8dd3af3392218238/src/app/store/reducer.ts
Same error has been reproduced there.
I can update repo to match instruction above.

Version of affected browser(s),operating system(s), npm, node and ngrx:

$ node -v
v6.11.1
$ npm -v
3.10.10

@ngrx/[email protected]

Other information:

[ValeryVS]

Possible relative #175

[Christian24]

I have the same issue. I am on Typescript 2.4.2. Disabling AOT fixes the issue. My getReducers function is not executed (I added a console.log).

[ValeryVS]

Right, I also tried to debug this a while, and found that reducers factory is not executed.

[Christian24]

Wouldn't that mean it is more a CLI issue though? AOT is only active in production mode right? Because everything works as expected in development mode.

[ValeryVS]

@Christian24
Well... it can be issue with ngrx/store or documentation or with angular itself. Don't think that CLI is relative here.
You can ng build --prod --aot=false to make production build without though.

[Christian24]

@ValeryVS true. I have tried that. When disabling AOT it works, but I would hate to give up AOT.

[brandonroberts]

I have a fix for this that will work for JiT/AoT. It should land soon once I submit the PR

[Christian24]

While the error goes away, my reducer still is not called. I detailed this in #189

[tschuege]

@ValeryVS @Christian24 @brandonroberts
I have the same issue.

• Angular 4.3.5
• @ngrx/[email protected]

It works on the first load (empty cache and hard reload), but after that when doing a normal reload, it get: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object at Function.keys ()

I tried various approaches like #189 but non of them worked.

Were you able to solve it? And if yes, how?

[manojc]

I am getting the same error and I'm not sure if it's a problem of ngrx or if it's fixed yet.

I tried using https://github.com/ngrx/platform/pull/254 fix but it doesn't seem to work.

It works perfectly fine if I build the application using JIT strategy.

It fails when I use AOT strategy using ng build --aot --watch --extract-css false --output-hashing none command.

I tried to debug the problem and found that combineReducers function in store.es5.js gets fired twice (unlike in JIT where it gets fired only once) which I didn't understand.
The reducers parameter of this function is null in second call and hence it throws the error.

I have got a couple of screenshots for further details.

Console Error

store.es5.js file

Please let me know if I am missing something. Thanks.

[FredericGryspeerdt]

Any updates on this? I've encountered the same error ...

[kristof01]

I had the same issue.
I was able to solve it by declaring the getReducers function in my feature module's module.ts file, instead of declaring it in the reducer's index.ts file.

[David-Mueller]

FYI the problem was, that angular AOT does not work with default exports (at least for reducers).
I fixed my problem by refactoring all reducer default exports to named exports.

[blong824]

@David-Mueller , can you show an example of this please?

[timdeschryver]

export default function (....) { 
  ...
}

becomes

export function reducer (...) {
 ...
}

[blong824]

Well I don't have export default function anywhere in my code. I am using my own Angular 6 library in my app. Everything compiles and runs with ng serve. When I build for production it compiles but when I try and run it locally I get the error mentioned above. I tried with --aot=true and --aot=false

[David-Mueller]

Hi,
unfortunately, this fixed it for me.

I'd double check, if all of the reducer imports are fine or if I pass undefined as a reducer somewhere with aot enabled.
Good luck

[mcoomans]

I have struggled with the same issue. I managed to solve it by declaring a wrapper for the reducer function right inside the module.ts file, similar to @kristof01 's suggestion above.

Original failing code

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    StoreModule.forFeature(
      'feature', featureNs.reducers 
    ),     ...
  ],`

( featureNs is a namespace and reducers is an ActionReducerMap.) Works with a JIT build, not an AOT build.

I got the AOT build working with (all in the module.ts file):

const combinedReducer: ActionReducer<featureNs.state, Action> =
   combineReducers(featureNs.reducers);

export function reducerWrapper(
  state: featureNs.state, action: Action): featureNs.state {
  return combinedReducer(state, action);
}

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    StoreModule.forFeature(
      'feature', reducerWrapper 
    ),     ...
  ],`

Note: the above module was part of an Angular feature Library (build with ng-packagr), and then imported in an app build with the AOT compiler. Not sure if the library part makes any difference...

[prabhatojha]

Things were working perfectly in DEV mode, then it became a nightmare when I deployed my application to production with the AOT flag on. It took me 2 days to figure out the solution for my specific case.

So I was using Object.assign to combine all my reducers.

Before
export const AppReducers = Object.assign({ APP_REDUCER: AppReducer }, OtherReducers );

After
export const AppReducers = { APP_REDUCER: AppReducer, ...OtherReducers } );

After a lot of hit and trial, I just removed the Object.assign and used spread operator, tadda, everything is working fine with and without the AOT flag. Surprising.

But I really want to understand why Object.assign wasted my 2 days? if anyone can put some lights on it?

[AliF50]

@mcoomans Thanks for your comment. I was facing the same issue and without your comment I wouldn't be able to solve it. Your way in the comment fixes it but there is also a different way.

Doing it like the 2nd snippet here fixes it too. (https://github.com/ngrx/platform/blob/v5.2.0/docs/store/api.md#injecting-reducers)