Is it possible to obtain a templateRef from a string?

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I am interested how you can obtain a TemplateRef by passing a string for example.

I don't want to obtain it through a component html, as I just want to save it in a config to be used for all components. I am refering to the ng-bootstrap NgbDatePickerConfig that can be viewed here: https://github.com/ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap/blob/master/src/datepicker/datepicker-config.ts.

I think you would need something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34784778/equivalent-of-compile-in-angular-2/37044960#37044960 — Günter Zöchbauer, Nov 24 '16 at 16:35
Thanks for the prompt reply. I was looking at that but I was hoping that there would be a shortcut to compiling a templateRef. — apeshev, Nov 24 '16 at 17:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '16 at 23:25

As Günter Zöchbauer pointed out, this is not possible and it probably is not too useful as you frequently would want to capture functionality for the template so you will need a Component for that.

However, currently it is not easy to create an isolated component that you just use to get a TemplateRef, as you need a ViewContainerRef in order to do that. Current Angular 2 issue that is targeting that: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/9293.

Is it possible to obtain a templateRef from a string?

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