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Sridhar Rao Chivukula
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Sridhar Rao Chivukula

Sridhar Rao Chivukula is a technical lead at Mindtree Ltd and is based out of New York City. He brings with him more than a decade of rich hands-on experience in all aspects of frontend engineering. He has worked with leading companies such as Oracle, Tech Mahindra, and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology. He is the author of the books Expert Angular and PHP and Web 2.0 Application Interfaces, published by Packt.
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Using FormBuilder

FormBuilder is an injectable helper class of the @angular/forms package of Angular. This class helps to reduce the wordiness of form creation as demonstrated in the following code:

this.movieForm = this.formBuilder.group({
movie_id: '',
title: '',
phase: '',
category_name: '',
release_year: '',
running_time: '',
rating_name: '',
disc_format_name: '',
number_discs: '',
viewing_format_name: '',
aspect_ratio_name: '',
status: '',
release_date: '',
budget: '',
gross: '',
time_stamp: ''
});

As you can see, using the group method of the FormBuilder class, the declaration of FormGroup and FormControl is now implicit. We only need to have the field name followed by its default...

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Sridhar Rao Chivukula

Sridhar Rao Chivukula is a technical lead at Mindtree Ltd and is based out of New York City. He brings with him more than a decade of rich hands-on experience in all aspects of frontend engineering. He has worked with leading companies such as Oracle, Tech Mahindra, and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology. He is the author of the books Expert Angular and PHP and Web 2.0 Application Interfaces, published by Packt.
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