# Has anyone integrated an Elm element into Angular?

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**Created:** [August 10, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/has-anyone-integrated-an-elm-element-into-angular/10386 "2025-08-10T15:07:33Z")\
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> [@adamyakes](#):
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Does Angular work with a VDOM? If it manages it’s own VDOM then it might just consider the element empty and not destroy it when diffing. Elm pretty reliably does this. In fact I usually use empty element like `div[][]` to bind non elm libraries like text editors etc.

> Also, I don’t know what happens to a `Browser.element` if some external JS removes the DOM element that it’s “controlling” - does it crash, gracefully terminate itself, hang around in memory, updating an element tree that’s not actually in `window.document` anymore.

We were just discussing that [here](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-programs-that-dont-die/10377/3) 😀

Basically… No it doesn’t gracefully clean itself up.

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