Angular2 route Component has no route config

I am trying to create a routing system for my application, but I seem to have hit some issues when creating a route that has no child routes. Here is my code:

bootstrap(CommercifyComponent, [
ROUTER_PROVIDERS,
HTTP_PROVIDERS,
]);

@Component({
selector: 'commercify',
templateUrl: './app/commercify.view.html',
styleUrls: ['./app/commercify.style.css'],
directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES]
})
@RouteConfig([
{ path: '/Dashboard', name: 'Dashboard', component: DashboardComponent },
{ path: '/Catalog/...', name: 'Catalog', component: CatalogComponent, useAsDefault : true }
])
export class CommercifyComponent {}


This is my CommercifyComponent view:


This is my DashboardComponent:

@Component({
selector: 'dashboard',
template: '<base-component>This is dashboard component</base-component>',
directives: [BaseComponent, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES]
})
export class DashboardComponent { }


This is the base component used in dashboard:

@Component({
selector: 'base-component',
templateUrl: 'app/common/components/base.view.html',
styleUrls: ['app/common/components/base.style.css'],
directives: [LeftNavbarComponentt]
})
export class BaseComponent { }


And this is its view:

<left-navbar></left-navbar>
<ng-content></ng-content>


This is the LeftNavbarComponent:

@Component({
selector: 'left-navbar',
templateUrl: 'app/common/components/left-navbar.view.html',
styleUrls: ['app/common/components/left-navbar.style.css'],
directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES]
})
export class LeftNavbarComponent {
private router: Router;

constructor(router: Router) {
this.router = router;
}

public isRouteActive(routeName: string) {
return this.router.isRouteActive(this.router.generate([routeName]));
}
}


This is the left navbar html:

<nav class="left-navbar navbar-inverse navbar">
<ul class="list-unstyled">
<li class="text-center menu-item">
<a href=""
class="navbar-link left-navbar-link"
[class.navbar-link-active]="isRouteActive('Dashboard')"
[routerLink]="['Dashboard']">
<i class="menu-icon fa fa-tachometer fa-3x"></i>
<span class="left-arrow"></span>
Dashboard
</a>
<ul class="child-menu list-unstyled">
<li>Dashboard 1</li>
<li>Dashboard 1</li>
<li>Dashboard 1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="text-center menu-item">
<a href="" class="navbar-link left-navbar-link"
[class.navbar-link-active]="isRouteActive('Catalog')"
[routerLink]="['Catalog']">
<i class="menu-icon fa fa-shopping-basket fa-3x"></i>
<span class="left-arrow"></span>
Catalog
</a>
</li>
</ul>


This is the catalog component:

@Component({
templateUrl: './app/catalog/catalog.view.html',
directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, BaseComponent]
})
@RouteConfig([
{ path: '/Templates', name: 'Templates', component: TemplatesComponent, useAsDefault: true },
])
export class CatalogComponent {}


And finaly this is the the CatalogComponent view:

<router-outlet></router-outlet>


As it can be seen from the code my CommercifyComponent has 2 routes configured Dashboard which will never have a child route and Catalog which has 1 child route Template for which I omitted the rest of the code cause its not relevant to the current question.

By default when the application loads I will be taken to the following URL:

http://localhost:5000/Catalog/Templates


and the link that has set [routerLink]="['Catalog']" will have a class of router-link-active but when I try to click the link with [routerLink]="['Dashboard']" I get the following exceptions:



Looking at this code makes me thing that I should add a RouteConfig to the DashboardComponent but I do not want to have any child routes for this component.

What am I doing wrong here?

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