Angular 2: How to conditionally load a Component in a Route asynchronously?

Question

I'd like to attach a component to a route asynchronously, given a condition.

The following example, which works (but is asynchronous), loads one component or another depending on the user role:

import { UserDashboardComponent }  from './user-dashboard.component'
import { AdminDashboardComponent } from './admin-dashboard.component'

const role = 'admin' // Just for the example
const comp = role === 'admin' ? AdminDashboardComponent : UserDashboardComponent

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', component: comp },
]

But, let's say we want to retrieve the role from an API, thus asynchronous. What's the way to accomplish that?

Answer 1

You could create a generic.module.ts which will have both components in declarations array:

import { NgModule }      from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { UserDashboardComponent }  from './user-dashboard.component'
import { AdminDashboardComponent } from './admin-dashboard.component    

@NgModule({
  imports: [ BrowserModule ],
  declarations: [ UserDashboardComponent,AdminDashboardComponent ]
})
export class GenericModule { }

this way you will have a module that contains the modules which you want to load.

Now next step will be to load them asynchronously using compiler: inside your component do following:

import {GenericModule} from './generic.module';
import { Component, Input,ViewContainerRef, Compiler, NgModule,ModuleWithComponentFactories,OnInit,ViewChild} from '@angular/core';
@Component({
  selector: 'generic',
  template: '<div #target></div>'
})
export class App implements AfterViewInit {
  @ViewChild('target', {read: ViewContainerRef}) target: ViewContainerRef;

  constructor(private compiler: Compiler) {}

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    this.createComponent('<u>Example template...</u>');
  }

  private createComponent(template: string,role:string) {
    @Component({template: template});
    const mod = this.compiler.compileModuleAndAllComponentsSync(GenericModule);
    const factory = mod.componentFactories.find((comp) =>
    //you can add your comparison condition here to load the component
    //for eg. comp.selector===role where role='admin'
    );
    const component = this.target.createComponent(factory);
  }
}

Hope this helps.