Get angular directive by name

Question

I know that we can get services from $injector by their name. Is it possible to somehow get the directive/component object from the dependency injector?

For example, if I wanted to write a service that can take a component's name, retrieve the component and do something with retrieved properties, how would I be able to retrieve the component by its name?

Answer 1

You can get services from $injector because there is only a single instance of each service in the system: they are singletons .

On the other hand, Directives/components have multiple instances for each time they show up on the page. Moreover, they cannot be injected as they are always created and bound to HTML.