Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Joe Eames

Special Guests: Udo Schöfer

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses NG Dynamic Forms with Udo Schöfer. Udo is web engineer from Nuremberg, Germany, with a focus on Angular, Node and Responsive Design. He is also the creator of NG Dynamic Forms. Udo discusses this topic and when and why it is best used, as well as the steps to use this library in Angular. He wanted to be able to give something back to the community and invites everyone to at least give it a try.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


NG Dynamic Forms Library
Dynamically generates forms based on the field it’s given
What level would you want to use this at?
This is for complex, heavily form driven single-page applications
Defines validators and error messages in an easy way
MongoDB
Disadvantages to using a Dynamic Forms approach
When does it get complicated to use?
Libraries
Flexbox layouts
Needs for this library
Steps to use this in Angular
Debugging
Validations in the form
Template vs Reactive Base forms
How to test forms
Angular test bed and angular code
Comparison on Udo’s GitHub Account
Future projects
And much, much more!


Links:  


Linode
RayGun
Udo’s GitHub
http://www.udos86.de
Angular Bootcamp
 


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Joe


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Udo


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Special Guest: Udo Schöfer.