Can't add a new component to my angular 2 app with typescript

Question

I'm using Angular 2 CLI and I created the component "MyComponent" with the ng generate component MyComponent. As far as I know I have to add the component to the directive key-value-pair of the @Component decorator, but the typescript compilation fails at this point, saying that:

ERROR in [default] /Users/Philip/Desktop/Angular2/src/app/app.component.ts:8:2 
Argument of type '{ selector: string; template: any; styles: any[]; directives: typeof MyComponentComponent[]; }' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Component'.
  Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'directives' does not exist in type 'Component'.

This is my code for the app:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { MyComponentComponent } from './my-component/my-component.component'

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'],
  directives: [MyComponentComponent],
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'app works!';
}

I didn't touch the code of the generated component, but just in case:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-my-component',
  templateUrl: './my-component.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./my-component.component.css']
})

export class MyComponentComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor() {

  }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

}

Answer 1

Angular2 Component decorator no longer use these for embedding other components. We will need to use a new meta data called entryComponents instead. See below as an example ...

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'],
  entryComponents:[VehicleListComponent]
})

The vehicle-list-component has the following component metadata..

@Component({
  selector: 'app-vehicle-list',
  templateUrl: './vehicle-list.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./vehicle-list.component.css'],
  providers: [VehicleService]
})