Ngx-Inject-Control

A painless and idiomatic way to create reusable form controls for Angular applications.

Battle-tested at Ezfire.

Version

• For Angular >=12, please use ngx-inject-control 1.x.x. npm install ngx-inject-control@1.0.0

Installation

npm:

npm install --save ngx-inject-control

Yarn

yarn add ngx-inject-control

Features

• Reusable form components
• Idiomatic API
• Behaves like you expect
• Plays nicely with UI libraries (e.g. Angular Material)

Usage

Create an injectable control

To use ngx-inject-control you first need to create an InjectableControl. An InjectableControl is an Angular component with a property called control of type AbstractControl. Finally, the InjectableControl must provide itself with the NGX_INJECTABLE_CONTROL token.

For example, suppose you want to create a single email input you can use across you application.

Markup:

<div class="email-container">
  <label for="email-input">Email</label>
  <input id="email-input" name="email" type="email" [formControl]="control" />
</div>

Component:

import {
  InjectableControl,
  injectableControlProvider,
} from 'ngx-inject-control';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-email-input',
  templateUrl: '...',
  providers: [injectableControlProvider(EmailInputComponent)],
})
export class EmailInputComponent implements InjectableControl {
    constructor(private readonly fb: FormBuilder) {}

    readonly control = this.fb.control(null, [Validators.email]).
}

Using an injectable control

Module:

InjectControlNameDirective is a standalone component and can by imported directly in a module or component.

import { InjectControlNameDirective } from 'ngx-inject-control';


@NgModule({
  declarations: [EmailInputComponent], // Injectable component must be in scope
  imports: [InjectControlNameDirective],
})

Component:

<form [formGroup]="group" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()">
  <input name="name" type="text" formControlName="name" />
  <app-email-input injectControlName="email"></app-email-input>
  <button>Submit</button>
</form>

@Component({
  selector: 'app-form',
  templateUrl: '...',
})
export class FormComponent {
  constructor(private readonly fb: FormBuilder) {}

  readonly group = this.fb.group({
    name: [null, Validators.required],
    email: [],
  });
}

On render, the injectControlName directive will replace the email field in group with the control field of EmailInputComponent. Validations are recomputed at the time of replacement.

API

InjectControlNameDirective

Input	Type	Description
injectControlName	string or number	The field or index to replace in the parent control.
disable	boolean	Enable or disable the injected control.

License

MIT