Equivalent of $compile in Angular 2

Question

I want to manually compile some HTML containing directives. What is the equivalent of $compile in Angular 2?

For example, in Angular 1, I could dynamic

Answer 1

Note: As @BennyBottema mentions in a comment, DynamicComponentLoader is now deprecated, hence so is this answer.

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Angular2 doesn't have any $compile equivalent. You can use DynamicComoponentLoader and hack with ES6 classes to compile your code dynamically (see this plunk):

import {Component, DynamicComponentLoader, ElementRef, OnInit} from 'angular2/core'

function compileToComponent(template, directives) {
  @Component({ 
    selector: 'fake', 
    template , directives
  })
  class FakeComponent {};
  return FakeComponent;
}

@Component({
  selector: 'hello',
  template: '
Hello, Angular!
'
})
class Hello {}

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: '
',
})
export class App implements OnInit {
  constructor(
    private loader: DynamicComponentLoader, 
    private elementRef: ElementRef,
  ) {}

  ngOnInit() {} {
    const someDynamicHtml = `
${Date.now()}
`;

    this.loader.loadIntoLocation(
      compileToComponent(someDynamicHtml, [Hello])
      this.elementRef,
      'container'
    );
  }
}

But it will work only until html parser is inside angular2 core.