When to Use Reactive and Template Forms
Discover the differences between reactive and template forms in Angular to understand which suits your project needs. Learn when to use template forms for simple scenarios and reactive forms for complex, testable, and dynamic form handling. This lesson helps you decide the best approach for creating efficient and maintainable forms in your Angular applications.
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Difference between reactive and template-driven form
The difference between the template-driven form and the Reactive form is that the template form binds closely to a model through ngModel. As the form is submitted, the model is already set.
Reactive forms take a different approach – they create a model of the form, which is attached to the form using the FormGroup. This model then observes the form, and as data is entered into the form, the model updates. This makes the state of the model available at any time so that if the user has just entered the first part of the form, we have a model representation of this. With each change to the form, we have a new instance of our form model.
This means we can start taking advantage of the ...