On a recent Angular 4 project I had the need to use some custom form validations. Out of the box, Angular 4 contains validators for required, email, pattern, and min/max length, and it is possible to write your own validators as well. In particular, the custom validation I needed to do was verify that two fields were equal. For example, a form where the user enters a phone number, and then confirms the phone number in a second form field. The custom validation would verify that the two text inputs had the same value.
Category: Angular 4
Angular 4 compared to React/Redux
Our company often does Angular projects so I’ve done a number of Angular 4 projects already and, currently, it’s a love/hate relationship. I wanted to try React so I wrote a side-project that uses React with Redux. This is my high-level comparison between the two.
Angular Form Errors – A Declarative Solution
Most of Angular is different than Angular 1.x, but one of the idioms that stayed the same was the use of class names to identify form fields that had validation errors (e.g. ng-invalid, ng-dirty, ng-touched etc). By checking for different combinations of these classes, you can tell which fields are invalid, have been modified (“ng-dirty”), and had focus at some point (“ng-touched”). However, this had a tendency to lead to some rather verbose and messy view code just to show/hide a validation message:
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Angular 4 Released
Last week, Google released the newest version of their Angular framework, Angular 4.0. The biggest changes seem to be around creating smaller builds and faster code. Our Solutions Group has several Angular 2 applications in production that we have already upgraded to Angular 4, and I am happy to report that the upgrade was smooth in each case.
If you are wondering if upgrading to Angular 4 is a good idea, I have put together a list of potential questions to help you decide.
