angular - How to load component dynamically using component name in angular2?

Question

I am currently loading angular components dynamically in my application using following code.

export class WizardTabContentContainer {
  @ViewChild('target', { read: ViewContainerRef }) target: any;
  @Input() TabContent: any | string;
  cmpRef: ComponentRef<any>;
  private isViewInitialized: boolean = false;

  constructor(private componentFactoryResolver: ComponentFactoryResolver,   private compiler: Compiler) {
  }

  updateComponent() {
     if (!this.isViewInitialized) {
       return;
     }
     if (this.cmpRef) {
       this.cmpRef.destroy();
     }
     let factory = this.componentFactoryResolver.resolveComponentFactory(this.TabContent);

     this.cmpRef = this.target.createComponent(factory);
   }
}

Here resolveComponentFactory function accepts component type. My question is, Is there any way I can load component using component name string e.g I have component defined as

export class MyComponent{
}

How can I add above component using component name string "MyComponent" instead of type?

Answer 1

Perhaps this will work

import { Type } from '@angular/core';

@Input() comp: string;
...
const factories = Array.from(this.resolver['_factories'].keys());
const factoryClass = <Type<any>>factories.find((x: any) => x.name === this.comp);
const factory = this.resolver.resolveComponentFactory(factoryClass);
const compRef = this.vcRef.createComponent(factory);

where this.comp is a string name of your Component like "MyComponent"

Plunker Example

To do it working with minification see

• ng2 - dynamically creating a component based on a template