Angular has fantastic support for forms, from the simple ngModel to the more robust reactive forms that make use of FormControl and FormGroup. Using ngModel allows us to bind input fields in the template to class members in our TypeScript files. Reactive forms take a similar approach except that we bind our form in the […]
Creating Custom Form Input Components with Ionic & Angular
A while ago I wrote a tutorial on building a custom input component for an Ionic application. It used an HTML5 <canvas> and a gesture listener to create a rating/satisfaction input component that looks like this: It was just a bit of a silly/fun component to serve as an example for learning about custom components, […]
Advanced Forms & Validation in Ionic 2 & 3
You may be familiar with using [(ngModel)] to set up two way data binding between inputs in your templates, and variables in your class definition. For example you might have an input field like this: and then in your class definition you could access that value through: In this tutorial we are going to look […]