Create a master table component and add child columns dynamically in angular - html

Question

Good morning everyone !
So have to create an application that displays many tables that all look the same (except their columns of course and the objects inside).
I have a master table component which can be summarized by:
<master-table>
<!-- here I define the master table style, pagination, etc etc
which is the same everywhere -->
</master-table>
In the master table component TS file I have basically options that are relevant for every page where this kind of table should be displayed, such as filterDate, clearSelection etc etc etc nothing very special.
The point is, I don't want to repeat this code every where because it is not necessary, so my idea was to create several component that would extend the master table component.
It works fine for the typescript values, but I am stuck with the HTML.
In my master table HTML I would like at some point some kind of placeholder something like this:
<master-table>
<standard-for-all-table></standard-for-all-table>
<!-- insert here child columns -->
</master-table>
In the components that extends my master table I was imagining then something like:
<!-- child component -->
<master-table></master-table>
<child-column>column definition</child-column>
Doing this would allow me to define only the columns in the child components HTML and they would be added automatically to the parent HTML at runtime...
Any idea how to do this ?
Cheers and thanks !

Answer 1

Basically you have to create your main master-table component and your generic list chid-column component and insert it in your parent html template structure.
I've edit the final part hope in a better understanding way...
Then you can structure your child component to contain all the properties you need and thanks to *ngIf show only the properties you return from your provider methods i.e. getClients(), getUsers(), getHouses(), also thanks to the #Input decorator you can inject this data directly from the parent to the child and create many components you want with just a change of the data.
So in your parent you can have something like
import { Component } from '#angular/core';
import { MY_DATA_FROMP_ROVIDER } from './mydata/provider';
#Component({
selector: 'master-table',
template: `
<ul>
<child-column *ngFor="let item of items"
[item]="item">
</app-hero-child>
</ul>
`
})
export class MasterTableComponent {
items:any
constructor(public data: MYDATAFROMPROVIDER) {
this.items = MYDATAFROMPROVIDER.myGetMethod();
}
And in your child
import { Component, Input } from '#angular/core';
import { INTERFACE } from './mydata/interface';
#Component({
selector: 'child-column',
template: `
<div *ngIf="item.id">{{item.id}}</div>
<div *ngIf="item.name">{{item.name}}</div>
<div *ngIf="item.address">{{item.address}}</div>
<div *ngIf="item.phone">{{item.phone}}</div>
`
})
export class ChildColumnComponent {
#Input() item: INTERFACE;
}
If you want to go deeper: Component Interaction

Answer 2

This guide is from official angular page Here
Here is the live sample of it
Not sure if these links could help.
But I actually worked on a project where we want to dynamically loading Child component into a Grid(Parent component).
And later on we can pass any component with different view inside the Grid
Guess that pretty close to your goal.