Pipe for converting string to template reference

🚀 feature request

Relevant Package

This feature request is for @angular/common

Description

If we need to use

[ngTemplateOutlet]="templateName" The “templateName” should be defined in component and should be of type TemplateRef.

Problem described with an example here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56001849/how-to-convert-string-to-an-template-reference-instance

Describe the solution you’d like

I should be able to convert the string type from a property to templateRef type using a pipe like below

[ngTemplateOutlet]="templateName | templateRef" In this case templateName can be string.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Here is the current alternative to the problem described above. https://stackblitz.com/edit/ng-template-outlet-mhpnas?file=app/app.component.ts

[dawidgarus]

You can create a directive that registers a template in a service and pipe to retrieve it: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-hkwoby

[trotyl]

Pipes are just normal user code, no pipe can bring extra capability to framework runtime. You’ll need to request an imperative view children query API first.