NgLazyLoadComponent

Lazy load Angular component into HTML template without routing.

Description

This library help to lazy load Angular component dynamically and render a at runtime. The NgLazyLoadComponent takes a function named lazyImporter as an input, which returns a Promise containing the component to be loaded. NgLazyLoadComponent has full life-cycle support for inputs and outputs.

See the stackblitz demo.

Get Started

Step 1: install ng-lazy-load-component

npm i ng-lazy-load-component

Step 2: Import NgLazyLoadComponentModule into your app module, eg.:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { NgLazyLoadComponentModule } from 'ng-lazy-load-component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    CommonModule,
    NgLazyLoadComponentModule
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Step 2: This is test-lazy.ts, an example of component with NgModule to lazy load (but also works with standalone component without NgModule), eg.:

import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Component, EventEmitter, Input, NgModule, Output } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'test-lazy',
  template: `
  Input1: {{testInput1}} <button (click)="testOutput1.emit(testInput1)">Output1</button><br />
  Input2: {{testInput2}} <button (click)="testOutput2.emit(testInput2)">Output2</button>
  `
})
export class TestLazyComponent {
  @Input() testInput1 = 0;
  @Input() testInput2 = 0;
  @Output() testOutput1: EventEmitter<number> = new EventEmitter<number>();
  @Output() testOutput2: EventEmitter<number> = new EventEmitter<number>();
}

@NgModule({
  declarations: [TestLazyComponent],
  imports: [CommonModule],
  exports: [TestLazyComponent]
})
export class TestLazyModule {}

If you have the NgModule and the component into two separate files, you can export the component in the same file of the NgModule, eg.:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { TestLazyComponent } from './test-lazy.component';

// also export the component
export { TestLazyComponent }

@NgModule({
  declarations: [TestLazyComponent],
  imports: [CommonModule],
  exports: [TestLazyComponent]
})
export class TestLazyModule {}

Step 3: usage

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NgLazyLoadComponentImporter, NgLazyLoadComponentOutput, NgLazyLoadComponentInput } from 'ng-lazy-load-component';
// import ONLY type definition of the component
import type { TestLazyComponent } from './test-lazy';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
  <ng-lazy-load-component 
    [lazyImporter]="lazyImporter" 
    [componentInput]="{testInput1, testInput2}" 
    (componentOutput)="onComponentOutput($event)"
  >
    <div #loading>Loading...</div> <!-- optional -->
    <div #error>Ops!</div> <!-- optional -->
  </ng-lazy-load-component>
  `,
})
export class AppComponent {
  // NgLazyLoadComponentInput force Input type casting between ng-lazy-load-component and lazy loaded component
  public testInput1: NgLazyLoadComponentInput<TestLazyComponent, 'testInput1'> = 0; // bind with test-lazy component `@Input() testInput1`
  public testInput2: NgLazyLoadComponentInput<TestLazyComponent, 'testInput2'> = 0; // bind with test-lazy component `@Input() testInput2`

  /** Lazy load the component with `import()` */
  lazyImporter: NgLazyLoadComponentImporter = () => import('./test-lazy').then((m) => ({
    component: m.TestLazyComponent, // Also works with standalone component
    module: m.TestLazyModule // NgModule is optional!
  }));

  /** 
   * test-lazy component outputs: `@Output() testOutput1` and `@Output() testOutput2` 
   * NgLazyLoadComponentOutput force Output type casting between ng-lazy-load-component and lazy loaded component
   */
  onComponentOutput(event: NgLazyLoadComponentOutput<TestLazyComponent>) {
    switch (event.property) {
      case 'testOutput1': this.testInput1 = event.value + 1; break;
      case 'testOutput2': this.testInput2 = event.value + 1; break;
    }
  }
}

The import() syntax, avoids dynamic imports using variables as paths to the modules. So needs to provide a static path to the module to let webpack to generate metadata for the module at the compile time.

The main issue of the import() syntax is that it starts importing the module when the compiler reads the line it is written in. So in this case, we use function syntax to avoid it's importing until the function will be called.

Support

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