{"id":1850,"date":"2023-12-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angulartraining.com\/daily-newsletter\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2023-12-05T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T23:57:11","slug":"using-formbuilder-or-formcontrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angulartraining.com\/daily-newsletter\/using-formbuilder-or-formcontrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Using FormBuilder or FormControl?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When creating reactive forms<\/a> with Angular, we have two options available. The most documented one is to inject the FormBuilder<\/code> service and use it to generate your form’s structure:<\/p>\n\n\n

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FormBuilder<\/code> makes perfect sense for forms that contain lots of elements. This service gives us methods that are factories for the following syntax, which is a lot more verbose:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, if you have a simple form with just one or two form controls, you don’t need FormBuilder<\/code>. Declaring your FormControl<\/code> “manually” is actually more manageable that way:<\/p>\n\n\n

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You can find an example of a single FormControl<\/code> with custom validation<\/a> here on Stackblitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When creating reactive forms with Angular, we have two options available. The most documented one is to inject the FormBuilder service and use it to generate your form’s structure: FormBuilder makes perfect sense for forms that contain lots of elements. This service gives us methods that are factories for the following syntax, which is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angular","category-forms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t