Kitten Factory

components.my-kittens.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  model: null
});

controllers.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  appName: 'Ember Twiddle',
  
  actions: {
    renderCustom() {
      this.send('showCustomOutlet');
    },
    
    destroyCustom() {
      this.send('destroyCustomOutlet');
    }
  }
});

controllers.render-component.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  model: null,
  componentName: null
});

routes.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  
  actions: {
    showCustomOutlet() {
      console.log('Showing custom');
      
      // Demo data
      let model = [
        { name: 'Hank', description: 'Strange' },
        { name: 'Jessie', description: 'Spikey' },
        { name: 'Walt', description: 'Bald' }
      ];
      
      // Set the component name to render on the custom controller
      let controller = 'renderComponent';
      let context = this.controllerFor(controller);
      context.set('componentName', 'my-kittens');
      
      this.render('render-component', {
        into: 'application',
        outlet: 'custom',
        controller,
        model
      });
    },
    
    destroyCustomOutlet() {
      console.log('Destroying custom');
      
      this.disconnectOutlet({
        outlet: 'custom',
        parentView: 'application'
      });
    }
  }
});

styles.app.css

@import url("https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css");

templates.application.hbs

<div class="container">
  <h1>Welcome to {{appName}}</h1>
  
	<button class="btn btn-primary" onclick={{action 'renderCustom'}}>Show Custom</button>
  <button class="btn btn-danger" onclick={{action 'destroyCustom'}}>Destroy</button>
  
  {{outlet}}
</div>

<hr />

<div class="container">
  {{outlet 'custom'}}
</div>

templates.components.my-kittens.hbs

<div class="panel panel-default">
  <div class="panel-heading">
    <h3 class="panel-title">Kittens</h3>
  </div>
  <ul class="list-group">
    <li class="list-group-item">
    	This context for this view is: <strong>{{this._debugContainerKey}}</strong>
    </li>
  	{{#each model as |kitten|}}
    	<li class="list-group-item">
      	<strong>{{kitten.name}}</strong>: {{kitten.description}}
      </li>
    {{/each}}
  </ul>
</div>

templates.render-component.hbs

<h1>Render Component Template</h1>

<p>Basically you render a template that uses the component helper to render a component. It's pretty limiting, as you have to know all the attributes you want to pass in ahead of time, but like I said, it's hacky.</p>

{{! Use that componentName in a component helper}}
{{component componentName model=model}}

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.11.0",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.10.2",
    "ember-data": "2.11.0",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.10.2",
    "ember-testing": "2.10.2"
  },
  "addons": {}
}