Angular 2.0 final: How to instantiate a component from code

Question

I\'m looking for a way to instantiate a component in Angular2 from within the code of another component. Unlike the many people that have asked a similar question I\'m not so mu

Answer 1

There seems to be a (new?) API function for doing what is described in mxii's answer. The ViewContainerRef has the createComponent method. It instantiates the component and adds it to the view.

let factory = this._cmpFctryRslvr.resolveComponentFactory(AnyComponent);
let cmp = this.viewContainer.createComponent(factory);
cmp.instance.name = 'peter';