Ionic 4 and MobX

I just spent several hours debugging an issue and hopefully, this will save you a lot of time.

I'm building a new Ionic 4 app and I'm using MobX to handle state.

I had previously used it in an Ionic 3 app, but I don't think I was using it correctly.

This time I wanted to make sure that my pages & components worked with ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush.

The tutorials I found showed something simple like this:

import { Component, ChangeDetectionStrategy } from '@angular/core';
import {store} from './store/counter';

@Component({
  changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
  template: `
  <div> - 
  <button>Action</button></div>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {
}

Now I'm not doing inline templates, but I'd make sure I was using @observable and @computed properties. However, whenever I put *mobxAutorun on an element, the entire element disappeared.

I made sure I had MobxAngularModule imported in app.module.ts but nothing I did made a difference.

Finally, I found the issue.

You need to import MobxAngularModule in the page module as well.

As soon as I added it everything started working as expected.