A New Method for Retrieving Metadata about Angular Components

A new function named reflectComponentType() has been added to Angular v14.1.0 that returns the following metadata from a component:

This function has several uncommon uses. It can be used to create debugging tools or, for example, we can use the selector metadata to create custom elements based on existing components:

We can use it to create dynamic components based on a JSON file. The following thread contains additional use cases:

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