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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Recipes to create cutting-edge, real-time hybrid mobile apps with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623230
Length 390 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Indermohan Singh Indermohan Singh
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic 2. Adding Ionic Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Ionic with Angular Building Blocks 4. Validating Forms and Making HTTP Requests 5. Adding Animation 6. User Authentication and Push Notifications 7. Supporting Device Functionalities Using Ionic Native 8. Theming the App 9. Advanced Topics 10. Publishing the App for Different Platforms 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating reactive forms in Ionic

In the previous example, we have created a complex form with validations. If you notice carefully, we used angular validations inside our template file, particularly in home.html. These type of forms are called as template driven form, where most of the work is done on template side. This is something very similar to what we had in AngularJS.

There is another type of form in Angular, called the reactive form. The difference is, in reactive forms, we used validations and other configuration inside the class of the component, instead of in the template. The following is the definition from Angular Docs:

"With reactive forms, you create a tree of Angular form control objects in the component class and bind them to native form control elements in the component template."

We will create a registration form, which looks like the following:

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