How to Make Forms in Angular REUSABLE (Advanced, 2023)
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Forms in Angular are crucial features that we can't avoid in our applications. It happens so often that we have to reuse some form controls or even entire form control groups within our applications. However, it is not as straightforward as it seems because the design of Angular Forms doesn't allow you to simply extract things in a separate component. In this video, I will show you how to reuse forms and not suffer from unnecessary boilerplate.
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Can you help me please? I can't bind Custom Control to emitEvent: false;
I use Custom Control, but i need to "correct" some of inputs. So when user input smth - i can alter it, with setValue(value, {emitEvent:false}). It works with normal forms, but with Custom Form Control i read that updateValueAndValidity used ignoring "emitEvent" option with Custom Control.
So what to do, to make emitEvent: false work? Or what method use, to replace it?
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Once again, thank you very much for this excellent video. The explanations are precise and very well illustrated. You are the boss.
I used to pass the form around to huge component hierarchies... I didn't know you could avoid it. I'll never struggle again, thanks so much!
Amazing video as always. I appreciate what you do and wouldn’t be where I am today without your help!
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Great video! Thanks, Dmytro
Useful lesson!
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Nice video, I will investigate this solution in more detail, thank you continue as well 💪
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Thanks for the great tutorial. I have been trying to do this cleanly for a long time !
Would be interesting to have some testing strategies for the subform component, as it needs to be part of a encapsulating formgroup to be functionnal.
Great solution really helpful :)
So funny, I was facing such problem yesterday, and was using 'dirty' method to solve the problem. It looks pretty awesome and I think this thing will become more popular because of your contribution :)
that's awesome, thank you.
another great video, Thanks
Fair play. Really solid explanation.
Since this video came out I used this approach in two projects and I really love it.
One thing that is missing for pretty much all dynamic form videos, tutorials and courses is to be able to dynamically hide or show a control based on another ones value. If you happen to know a solid solution for that, please make a video or add it to your course. In your course you already have a section about creating a form based on a json, but no way of adding conditions for visibility. I found a working solution, but it relies on mutability.
For those wondering: I'm using a signal to hold the config of the form which includes a visibility state as well as conditions on when to show certain fields. Then I'm building a form based on that condition using the approach from this video. That way we can keep markup and from group in sync. Then I'm listening to value changes on the form group and look for any controls that might need to be updated. I then set their visibility to either true or false. However, since my config can be deeply nested I'm extracting all controls, that dependent on a another one, into a computed signal. I use this as a base to find controls to check and modify.
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You are welcome :)
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Thank you Dmytro, you're producing a really great and unique piece of content.
Secondly, although I really like this approach in some cases, I wonder if it doesn't break the typed forms. What if I would like to have a multistep form (order) with items and addresses as separate form groups? I would like to know it upfront, validate everything etc. And with this approach the starting form group has only single field. I feel CVA would be a better choice.
So my question - is there a way to use type in root component with the approach you demonstrated?
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Awesome!
Good little dive into intervals - the ControlContainer, but honestly, it looks like you are on your way to reinvent the wheel - namely the template driven forms
Hi Dmitry, I am really glad to hear your opinion, thank you 🙌 indeed, the inspiration for self-registered form control models I found in Template-Driven forms :) I know that with TDF it would be even easier to reuse the controls since the control registration happens there automatically but sometimes we just have to stick with reactive forms.
Great video
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Thanks you for the video.
Please make a video for creating inline-editing feature for angular material table
Interesting approach, previously in such cases I used Control value accessor. I think this has one advantage, we can keep the model reference in the main form model
ControlValueAccessor might be also a valid approach. It depends on the use case. CVA is useful when you want to make a component bindable with FormControl/FormGroup models which eventually brings support of angular form features like validations, etc.
Now this video has lessons on it.
Based on this I just trimmed an HTML file that had about 2500 lines down to 741.
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Great video! It solved my split form issue. However, do you mind addressing the test case for this as well?
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This is so good, thanks for the video!
creating a separate component that implements ControlValueAccessor and Validator stuff, just to containt an inner FormGroup and behave as a control also works the same, but this method is so much less painful.
How does this work with typed form though, if a child component is registering the FormControls on the parent FormGroup directive, and it is all configured in the remplate? To me it seems the parent will not know about the existence of those controls, as far as typing goes - it will ofc work in runtime just as the video shows.
oof, this was pretty slick! thanks for this!
Amazing
Thanks for the lesson, it is really cool.
Is it possible to use the same approach without adding a new FormGroup, but add just one control to the parent FormControl?
Fabulous video. Does this work for a stepwise form with angular router?
Hello @DecodedFrontend, your advanced concepts videos are very helpful. Can you please create a tutorial on how to build a Realtime Video chat web app in Angular 14 using webrtc protocol.
Hi, Dimitro! Continuing the topic of reuse, would you be interested in releasing a video about route reuse strategy?
Another cool video, or should I say: a missing part of Angular docs! I finally understood the resolution decorators Thanks!. Given that the main form model (in this case: AppComponent) is incomplete (the remaining fields are dispersed across other components), how is this going to work with strongly typed forms? Also, if I wanted to author a form AddressGroupComponent that is usable in both ReactiveForms and template driven forms - would I have to author two separate components? I think Angular forms got a bit neglected over time.
Thank you for your efforts and sharing knowledge, great content as always and really appreciated
I'm currently working on forms enhancement and reusablility especially the form validation and custom form controls validation messages
And I had a question, after this video they've become two 😂
It is about that is it possible to create a custom directive for example "controlErrorHandler" to use on form controls and it can inject the validation message component like in my case as im using angular material
Is it even applicable that way or there any other better solution, any advice I'd be grateful
The second question came to my mind that you've fixed my problem without even seeing a directive on the controls or inputs and im really curious.
Thanks in advance.
It's a nice approach, but would probably have issues with using strictly typed forms
I'm curious about what issues it'll have
@@Emekaelo Without declaring form controls in parent component you will face an error. Of cource you can make those controls optional, but it's not the best solution. If you want to make the child component strictly typed, it can be not that easy )
It would be great to make a video about accessability. like how to change font-size for the whole application.
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What is next and very challenging is when you have Form Array:
1. Edit mode - you have database data which needs to populate the child reactive form array. Or not if we are in Add mode.
2. Send additional data to child component. Ex: Form array object has select box which requires some database objects and also determine values of another control in that Form Array.
In the end you have two @Input, the edit mode array from database and additonal values for select box, which need to communicate with parent form group.
I don't know if I will find this in the course. Nevertheless, thank you! Best one yet!
How long you been without sleep? Ty for the content thou
thank you
Sorry Dymtro but I think this solution you have provided this time, even if it works, is not the best approach to solve this kind of problems. For example, what if you want to add a different set of validators on each of the reused components? You would have to start creating new inputs on the reusable component to address this kind of things and everything would be a mess inside the component sooner or later. And what is worst, you don't need that, Angular is ready for those scenarios. I'm sure that you're aware that NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR provider and implementing the ControlValueAccesor interface should be the way to go if you want to create truly reusable form components, exactly the same way is done in the Angular forms source code. Adding controls "magically" to a parent formgroup from a control that is not declared as a formControl itself seems to me a really bad patttern and I hope no external library does it in my projects.
Hi, thank you for your comment and I respect it a lot.
Firstly, I'd like to say that please don't take my solution as a "silver bullet" for each use case of "form control reusing" :) The best approach may vary depending on the requirements and goals you want to achieve.
The goal of ControlValueAccessor isn't making the form control reusable (though it is also possible) but rather making a component/directive/DOM element/etc. behave as a form control that can support validation and other Angular form control features. Also, if you look at the source code of angular forms, you will see that the ValueAccessor is used to build a "bridge" between native form controls like input and the model (FormControl) that describes this input but it is not used for sharing purposes.
The pattern from this video works better if you have a static and predictable group of controls that just has to be shared in some other place. Like the use case with billing and delivery address. If we assume that they are static and have the same validators I don't see any problem with encapsulating everything in one component and I don't see any reason to make the host component as the CVA.
If the "magic" embarrasses you, you can drop this part of the pattern and define models explicitly from the parent component, it is also fine :) I also don't like when too much magic happens but if an adequate amount of magic can bring much cleaner code then I am fine with that. For example, when you build your form dynamically, it is very convenient when the component registers the corresponding form control by itself and you don't have to separately manage the form control models and the control component. By the way, Template-Driven forms are doing pretty much the same ;) E.g ngModel creates a FormControl instance and registers them in the parent FormGroup instance created by ngForm directive, so Template-Driven Forms are completely built with this "magic" and many developers like and successfully use them.
Of course, we can have different opinions on it and I respect it. It is absolutely OK to have different points of view and I am very grateful for this interesting discussion :)
@@DecodedFrontendHi Dmytro. I found a solution to the problem of reusable forms on angular university article about custom controls. I dont know is it the best solution (learning angular about 2 months), but the solution helped me
@@DecodedFrontend I've got to agree with @gonzalocorchon6509 and I would like to point out that there are some issues with this approach:
- controlKey when propagated through the codebase will become something the new developpers should learn in order to be able to work. It increases the entry cost of the codebase.
- With this approach you will have not only to add validators and extra inputs to fullfill the features that reactive froms already have, but you have to introduce some error management. In your code, if the parent doesn't have a formGroup, your error will be a null injector instead of the well formatted form of angular, whilest with ControlValueAccesor you'll benefit of angular's error management.
With that being said, I would like to thank you for your content, it's truely amazing, this critic is meant for us all to grow as a community and not discrediting your hard work, I understand a vidéo like this took you hours to make, and I think I can speak for everyone when I say, we truely appreciate your hardwork
Congratulations on this civil discussion!
I came to say the exact same thing and I learned a lot.
Many thanks to both of you
Totally agree with you (see my comment above) and after a few experiments I would also add that (1) ControlValueAccessor gives a bit more flexibility when working with strongly typed form group definitions generated from API types (for example, ToFormGroupType) (2) better way of creating reusable components for arrays in case if you need a bit more code than simple *ngFor (3) ControlValueAccessor-based approach doesn't care about lifecycle hooks in contrast to Dmytro's example where you can't start adding controls in constructor directly, this means that parent component can't start pushing data before OnInit has finished.
BUT ControlValueAccessor comes at a cost of way more complicated code and also has a few other issues like propagating control's validity upstream if you have validators inside ControlValueAccessor-based component.
Thank you for your great content. what about if this form group name is a form array ?
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@DecodedFrontend FormArray example would be much appreciated as well :)
Nice approach, thanks, will definitely use in our project!
How do you deal with the fact that nested part is invisible when inspecting a form declaration in the parent component, do you usually check the template as well?
this is a good question. I think you should look always for some balance. For example, how much I will win if apply this technique for a simple login form? Well, probably not too much, right? It will bring too much magic to your forms. But maybe if it is a complex piece of logic that would require a lot of boilerplate, validation logic, etc. Then probably a bit of magic isn't so bad 😊 Also, you can use only part of the whole pattern (providing only ControlContainer) and keep separately form models and the view if you want/need.
We have a parent component with several child components, several of which are further nested, and it's ReactiveForm. Instead of implementing CVA for every child component, or using Inputs/Outputs, we are using FormGroupDirective. So into every child component, that is a part of the form, we inject the FormGroupDirective and add the control to the parent form. Have you seen this approach? I would like to double-check somewhere whether this approach is okay and not breaking good practices :D And what would be a better approach, FormGroupDirective or your in the video?
Hey 👋🏻 Thanks for sharing. I just curious how does it work with typed forms? 🤔
You have amazing skills both coding and teaching although I do not like the reactive way for handling forms. It seems that, when going reactive we're doing job that the framework should do for us.
very nice, Thanks for sharing. But I've one question thou, how about creating a standalone component with sevral different html, how do use change this component html template dynamically?
Hi! Thanks you for share this amazing feature. I 've two questions.
I use this approach to create reusable input field (text/email/number and so on), select, radio etc... The reside in separate file and pass in input [controlKey], to the inputFiled component ([formControlName]="controlKey") and the magic appear.
So the question is, what do you think about my solution? It's overkill? There is a simple one solution?
Can I ask you what you think about compare your solution with the FormGroupDirective for create reusable form?
I was looking for the similar stuff and it really helped me. thanks Alot.
also i am trying to write unit test cases for same standalone component and its throwing error on this saying "no provider for ControlContainer". Any idea how to fix that i created one mockClass but not working.
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Thanks for video. I found an interesting thing here, So if we have some async validators, after each on destroy of our control we will fire updateValueAndValidity under the hood, and make some request. Maybe you know some workaround for this?
nice video :) coming a bit late 😂 was looking for this 6 month ago
any chance to get explanation with TDF with viewProvider ? :D
Cool
Hello. Thank you for video. I have one question about this way to use form. What about typed of parent form? If we get value of parent form we know that we have additional key and value but typescript doesn’t know. Please correct me if i am wrong
How are you able to do this, from where did you studied this , thanks for this
I am working on a project which uses angular 10, how should I provide the *ControlContainer* in *viewProviders* ? I am not able to figure out how can I solve the circular dependency error.
Excellent explanation of this approach! However, if you're going to create the nested form group instance within the child component itself (instead of within the parent component's form group) like this: this.addressFormGroup = new FormGroup(...), wouldn't it be the same thing if you used [formGroup]="addressFormGroup" instead of [formGroupName]="controlKey" in the child component template, since in both cases, the template will be bound to the same nested form group instance? This way, you wouldn't need to use that "rare" feature with viewProviders to make the [formGroupName] work in the template for binding to the correct nested form group instance.
Or is there some extra functionality about FormGroupName directive that FormGroup directive does not have?
Is there a translation option on the course platform?
My English is still very basic.
is there a git link for the code? Fantastic tutorial btw
Do you know if this pattern can be used with FormArray? For example, what if you wanted to collect N number of addresses?
How would I set the control values when receiving data from server? How to access the main object from parent form in the child form? @input?
What if I need to disable one of the addresses fields from the parent component? Since the address form is being created from the address form component, the parent form (from app component) doesn't know that it exists, right? At least at Typescript level. Or am I missing something?
Дмитрий, привет! Отличное видео! Помню ты был в очках, сделал коррекцию? Все тоже думаю избавиться от очков, но слышал, что после коррекции нужно не давать нагрузку на глаза, например, не сидеть долго за компьютером.
P.S. не смог пройти по ссылке на курс.
Привет! Спасибо за отзыв о видео 😊
Да, я в апреле сделал коррекцию. Мне в клинике сказали, что лучше пару дней отдохнуть, а потом в обычном режиме можно работать. Там ещё многое зависит от метода. Я делал SMILE и после него на много быстрее восстановление. Я, кажется, отвечал уже в первый день на письма)) В любом случае, всё прошло хорошо, и пока полёт нормальный. Я очень рад!
Какая именно ссылка не работает? Та что в описании или в комментарии? Я проверил, обе вроде работают ок.
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Thank you for this great idea! I use it for loose coupled components (with routing) that work together as a generic form.
But i have a problem to make the injection / parentContainer optional. So if i want to use the same component as a single form component or with a parent form. Any Optional( ) or something like deps: [[Optional, NgForm]] is not working (still get an null injection error...).
Any tips how to fix that?
Ah, i got it working. I used the Optional syntax wrong.
First trys was with
deps: [[Optional, NgForm]]
Second Try was with an @Optional before the Token.
But correct syntax is this:
useFactory: () => inject(ControlContainer, {skipSelf: true, optional:true})
Now it works, you only have to adjust the getter for the "parent" Container to use the local formGroup instead of the one from the parent if it not exists. Also adjust the templat to provide a parentFormgroup then.
Good Day folks and thx, fopr sharing tips
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