diff --git a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/InlineComponent/index.ts b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/InlineComponent/index.ts
index 35c328fe03..7174715c21 100644
--- a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/InlineComponent/index.ts
+++ b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/InlineComponent/index.ts
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ export default class InlineComponentWrapper extends Wrapper {
 			componentInitProperties.push(`props: ${name_initial_data}`);
 		}
 
+		if (component.options.dev) {
+			// TODO this is a terrible hack, but without it the component
+			// will complain that options.target is missing. This would
+			// work better if components had separate public and private
+			// APIs
+			componentInitProperties.push(`$$inline: true`);
+		}
+
 		if (!usesSpread && (this.node.attributes.filter(a => a.isDynamic).length || this.node.bindings.length)) {
 			updates.push(`var ${name_changes} = {};`);
 		}
diff --git a/src/internal/Component.js b/src/internal/Component.js
index 9107276e16..cd7c8517ec 100644
--- a/src/internal/Component.js
+++ b/src/internal/Component.js
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ export class $$Component {
 			// TODO null out other refs, including this.$$ (but need to
 			// preserve final state?)
 			this.$$onDestroy = this.$$fragment = null;
+			this.$$.get_state = () => ({});
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ export class $$Component {
 
 export class $$ComponentDev extends $$Component {
 	constructor(options) {
-		if (!options || !options.target) {
+		if (!options || (!options.target && !options.$$inline)) {
 			throw new Error(`'target' is a required option`);
 		}
 
diff --git a/test/runtime/samples/element-source-location/_config.js b/test/runtime/samples/element-source-location/_config.js
index b5834d6d92..7733688f23 100644
--- a/test/runtime/samples/element-source-location/_config.js
+++ b/test/runtime/samples/element-source-location/_config.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import path from 'path';
+import * as path from 'path';
 
 export default {
 	compileOptions: {
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ export default {
 
 		assert.deepEqual(h1.__svelte_meta.loc, {
 			file: path.relative(process.cwd(), path.resolve(__dirname, 'main.html')),
-			line: 0,
+			line: 4,
 			column: 0,
-			char: 0
+			char: 51
 		});
 
 		assert.deepEqual(p.__svelte_meta.loc, {