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Doguhan Uluca
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Doguhan Uluca is a Principal Fellow at Excella in Washington, D.C., where he leads strategic initiatives and delivers critical systems. He has technical expertise in usability, mobility, performance, scalability, cybersecurity, and architecture. He is the author of the Angular for Enterprise Application Development books, has spoken at over 30 conferences, and is an Angular GDE Alumni. Doguhan has delivered solutions for Silicon Valley startups, Fortune 50 companies, and the U.S. Federal Government, and he is passionate about contributing to open-source projects and teaching.
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Reviewing and saving form data

On the last step of the multistep form, users should be able to review and then save the form data. As a good practice, a successful POST request will return the data that was saved back to the browser. We can then reload the form with the information received back from the server:

src/app/user/profile/profile.component.ts
...
async save(form: FormGroup) {
    this.userService
      .updateUser(this.currentUserId, form.value)
      .pipe(first())
      .subscribe({
        next: (res: IUser) => {
          this.patchUser(res)
          this.formGroup.patchValue(res)
          this.uiService.showToast('Updated user')
        },
        error: (err: string) => (this.userError = err),
      })
  }
...

Note that updateUser returns the saved value of the user. It is possible that the database returns a different version of user than what we had before, so we use formGroup.patchValue to update the data powering the form. The...

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Doguhan Uluca

Doguhan Uluca is a Principal Fellow at Excella in Washington, D.C., where he leads strategic initiatives and delivers critical systems. He has technical expertise in usability, mobility, performance, scalability, cybersecurity, and architecture. He is the author of the Angular for Enterprise Application Development books, has spoken at over 30 conferences, and is an Angular GDE Alumni. Doguhan has delivered solutions for Silicon Valley startups, Fortune 50 companies, and the U.S. Federal Government, and he is passionate about contributing to open-source projects and teaching.
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