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Angular Reactive Forms

A comprehensive guide for building forms with Angular

Unleash the power of Angular's forms by diving into the powerful Reactive Forms module. Gain practical knowledge of how to design, develop, validate, and maintain complex, dynamic forms with the reactive API. Use the recipes section to solve real-world challenges.

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About the Book

This book is a comprehensive guide to Angular's Reactive Forms module. It covers everything you need to know in order to design, build, and manage complex, dynamic form systems. Each method is explained in detail, along with a code sample and notes. The real-world usage section contains recipes for common scenarios that can be used as a complete solution, a code reference, or a starting point for your own implementation. The final section is dedicated to more advanced usage.

Author

About the Author

Nir Kaufman

Google Developer Expert for web technologies, worldwide conference speaker, workshop mentor, and community leader.

Principal Frontend developer & consultant for 500Tech, a top front-end consultancy in NYC.

Contents

Table of Contents

What this book is all about

  1. How to use this book
  2. Prior knowledge and experience
  3. Setting up a development environment
  4. Part 1. API Guide

The Building Blocks

  1. ReactiveFormModule
  2. FormControl
  3. FormControlDirective
  4. Getting the value
  5. Tracking control value changes
  6. Setting the control’s value
  7. Resetting the Control’s Value
  8. Creating a FormGroup
  9. Setting and resetting the FormGroup’s value
  10. Retrieving child controls
  11. Retrieving the root control
  12. Mutating the control group
  13. Creating a FormArray
  14. Working with the FormArray
  15. FormArray values
  16. Mutating the FormArray controls
  17. Using FormBuilder to reduce Code
  18. Summary

Tracking Control State

  1. Control state properties
  2. Displaying a validation message
  3. Tracking the Group’s state
  4. Styling form controls
  5. Setting the state manually
  6. Resetting a control’s state
  7. Summary

Validation

  1. Building a login form
  2. Built-in validators
  3. Tracking validation status
  4. Custom validators
  5. Working with the errors Map
  6. Managing the errors object manually
  7. Checking for an Error
  8. Async validators
  9. Passing arguments to a custom validator
  10. Tracking validation status
  11. Reactive status changes
  12. Using native validation
  13. Disabling and enabling validation of a control
  14. Controlling the side effects
  15. Preventing the status change event
  16. Reacting to disabled events
  17. Managing validators manually
  18. Summary
  19. Part 2. Forms Cookbook

Nested forms

  1. Part 3. Advanced Forms

Custom Form Controls

  1. The ControlValueAccessor Interface
  2. ControlValueAccessor Directives
  3. Sample Custom Form Control: Button Group

Custom Form Control Validation

  1. The Slider Custom Control
  2. Adding Custom Validation
  3. Passing Arguments to a Built-in Validator
  4. Extracting the Validator Function
  5. Custom Validator Directive

Dynamic Forms

  1. Dynamic Control Component
  2. Dynamic Form Renderer Component
  3. Using the Dynamic Form Renderer
  4. Summary

State Driven Forms With Redux

  1. Redux And Angular
  2. Building a State Driven Form
  3. Connecting a Form Component
  4. Summary

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