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Service to dynamically append Angular components to the body
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import { | |
Injectable, | |
Injector, | |
ComponentFactoryResolver, | |
EmbeddedViewRef, | |
ApplicationRef, | |
ComponentRef | |
} from '@angular/core'; | |
@Injectable() | |
export class DomService { | |
constructor( | |
private componentFactoryResolver: ComponentFactoryResolver, | |
private appRef: ApplicationRef, | |
private injector: Injector | |
) { } | |
createComponent(component: any, componentProps?: object) { | |
// 1. Create a component reference from the component | |
const componentRef = this.componentFactoryResolver | |
.resolveComponentFactory(component) | |
.create(this.injector); | |
if (componentProps && typeof componentRef.instance === 'object') { | |
Object.assign(componentRef.instance as object, componentProps); | |
} | |
return componentRef; | |
} | |
attachComponent(componentRef: ComponentRef<unknown>, appendTo: Element) { | |
// 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 | |
appendTo.appendChild(domElem); | |
return; | |
} | |
} |
How to use this ? Can you give me an introduction ?
how to use this service?
it works very well for me, Thanks !
How would you remove an element using this approach?
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Modified to be able to append to any
Element
reference. Returning thecomponentRef
allows for better controller of the component - for destruction via.destroy()
for example