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Angular developers work around gaps in form ergonomics

Angular developers building forms want to submit a form from its model, focus a field through a form control, and get more actionable errors when a template control is missing. The requests describe extra DOM references and manual searching as friction points. These signals are from 2017–2019, so they show historical pain but not whether the gaps or demand persist today.

For angular developers building template-driven and reactive forms. Mentioned from Sep 2017 to Jun 2019 on GitHub.

4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.

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Indie fit
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Pain
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Frequency
5.8/10
Willingness to pay
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Momentum
5.0/10
Who pays
Professionals
Competition
Medium
Build difficulty
Low

What people said

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  1. Create an API on FormControl that would easily allow the input to be focused without having to resort to bringing in Renderer or ElementRef
    logic01 on GitHub (angular/angular)Jun 2019+210 upvotesAsked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. This is literally one line of code, vs an additional class member for every single field in your form that you want to focus as well as template refs in the template to muddy up your template, @ViewChild decorators up the wazoo, and then you still have to add the line of focus code provided by what I just displayed her…
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