You can use ViewChildren and the QueryList.changes event to be notified when the button is added to or removed from the view. If the QueryList contains the button element, you can set the focus on it. See this stackblitz for a demo. Suggestion: you may want to do something similar to set the focus on … Read more
So here’s what I ended up doing: I discovered you could pass a function to $scope.$watch. From there, it’s pretty straightforward to return the value of the expression you want to watch for changes. It will work exactly like passing a key string for a property on the scope. link: function ($scope, $el, $attrs) { … Read more
Angular v2 doesn’t support more than one structural directive on the same element. As a workaround use the <ng-container> element that allows you to use separate elements for each structural directive, but it is not stamped to the DOM. <ng-container *ngIf=”show”> <div *ngFor=”let thing of stuff”> {{log(thing)}} <span>{{thing.name}}</span> </div> </ng-container> <ng-template> (<template> before Angular v4) … Read more