ng2-formly

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angular2-formly is an Angular 2 module which has a Components to help customize and render JavaScript/JSON configured forms. The formly-form Component and the FormlyConfig service are very powerful and bring unmatched maintainability to your application's forms.

Include the FormlyForm component import in the directives attribute of your Component and put this in your template

<form class="formly" role="form" novalidate [formGroup]="form" (ngSubmit)="submit(user)">
    <formly-form [model]="user" [fields]="userFields">
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Button</button>
    </formly-form>
</form>

and in your TypeScript file define the the model and fields attributes

this.userFields = [{
  className: 'row',
  fieldGroup: [{
      className: 'col-xs-6',
      key: 'email',
      type: 'input',
      templateOptions: {
          type: 'email',
          label: 'Email address',
          placeholder: 'Enter email'
      },
      validation: Validators.compose([Validators.required, ValidationService.emailValidator])
  }, {
      className: 'col-xs-6',
      key: 'password',
      type: 'input',
      templateOptions: {
          type: 'password',
          label: 'Password',
          placeholder: 'Password',
          pattern: ''
      },
      validation: Validators.compose([Validators.required, Validators.maxLength(10), Validators.minLength(2)])
  }]
}];

this.user = {
  email: '[email protected]',
  checked: false
};

Quick Start

• install ng2-formly

  npm install ng2-formly --save

• add the script to the HTML file (if necessary)

<!-- index.html -->
<script src="node_modules/ng2-formly/bundles/ng2-formly.min.js"></script>

• and to your component add

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {bootstrap} from '@angular/platform/browser';
import {FormlyForm, FormlyConfig, FormlyMessages, TemplateDirectives, FormlyProviders} from 'ng2-formly'

@Component({
    selector: 'hello-app',
    template: `
        <h1>Hello, {{name}}!</h1>
        Say hello to: <input [value]="name" (input)="name = $event.target.value">
        <formly-form [model]="user" [fields]="userFields"></formly-form>
    `,
    directives: [FormlyForm],
    providers: [FormlyConfig, FormlyMessages]
})
export class HelloApp {
    name: string = 'World';
    user = {};
    userFields;
    constructor(fc: FormlyConfig) {
        ['input', 'checkbox'].forEach((field) => {
            fc.setType({
                name: field,
                component: TemplateDirectives[field]
            })
        });

        this.userFields = [{
            key: 'nameOfPerson',
            type: 'input',
            templateOptions: {}
        }]
    }
}

bootstrap(HelloApp, [FormlyProviders]);

From there, it's just JavaScript. Allowing for DRY, maintainable, reusable forms.

Roadmap

See the issues labeled enhancement

Supported templates

• Material2
• Bootstrap

Thanks

A special thanks to Kent C. Dodds for giving me opportunity to work on this. This library is maintained (with love) by me, Mohammed Zama Khan. Thanks to all contributors! If you're trying to find angular-formly, go here