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    Service to dynamically append Angular components to the body
  
        
  
    
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  | import { | |
| Injectable, | |
| Injector, | |
| ComponentFactoryResolver, | |
| EmbeddedViewRef, | |
| ApplicationRef | |
| } from '@angular/core'; | |
| @Injectable() | |
| export class DomService { | |
| constructor( | |
| private componentFactoryResolver: ComponentFactoryResolver, | |
| private appRef: ApplicationRef, | |
| private injector: Injector | |
| ) { } | |
| appendComponentToBody(component: any) { | |
| // 1. Create a component reference from the component | |
| const componentRef = this.componentFactoryResolver | |
| .resolveComponentFactory(component) | |
| .create(this.injector); | |
| // 2. Attach component to the appRef so that it's inside the ng component tree | |
| this.appRef.attachView(componentRef.hostView); | |
| // 3. Get DOM element from component | |
| const domElem = (componentRef.hostView as EmbeddedViewRef<any>) | |
| .rootNodes[0] as HTMLElement; | |
| // 4. Append DOM element to the body | |
| document.body.appendChild(domElem); | |
| // 5. Wait some time and remove it from the component tree and from the DOM | |
| setTimeout(() => { | |
| this.appRef.detachView(componentRef.hostView); | |
| componentRef.destroy(); | |
| }, 3000); | |
| } | |
| } | 
  
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