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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 6h

New Blog Article: Building a Form Generator with Angular's new Signal Forms (experimental). Please find it here: angulararchitects (dot) io.

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Younes Jaaidi @younesjd.dev · 2d

📢 I'll be giving an #Angular Vitest #testing workshop on Wednesday for @viteconf.org

You can register here: viteconf.amsterdam/workshops

🍛 Ingredients:
⚡️ Vitest
🦋 Zoneless
🐙 Testing Library
🍴 Techniques such as TDD, Fakes, and object mothers
🎁 Some surprises
...

🤯 It's free and online

Vitest UI screenshot testing a workshop invite component

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

6/6 <app-dynamic-form ... /> iterates over the metadata and generates respective fields.

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

5/6 We can convert an Array with metadata to a schema used by Signal Forms:

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

4/6 Now, let's look at the implementation. This is the type for the metadata:

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

3/6 Here is the result:

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

2/6 Then pass your metadata and the entity to a component that renders the form:

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 2d

1/6 Here is a small prototype for a dynamic form/ form generator with Angular's new Signal Forms (experimental). You can define metadata to describe user-defined entities:

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Gergely Szerovay @gergelyszerovay.bsky.social · 2d

🅰️📢 Check out the 42nd issue of the @AngularAddicts newsletter: Signal Forms API, AI powered apps with Angular & more

www.angularaddicts.com/p/angular-ad...

@simonaco.bsky.social @cedric-exbrayat.bsky.social @manfredsteyer.bsky.social @eneajaho.me @armandotrue.bsky.social

Angular Addicts #42: Signal Forms API, AI powered apps with Angular & more

My favorite Angular resources of September, 2025

www.angularaddicts.com

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Tim Deschryver @timdeschryver.dev · 2d

If you want to get exploring Signal Forms, I highly recommend "All About Angular’s New Signal Forms" from @manfredsteyer.bsky.social .

Thanks Manfred! 🏆

www.angulararchitects.io/blog/all-abo...

All About Angular's New Signal Forms - ANGULARarchitects

Dies ist Beitrag 1 von 1 der Serie “Signal Forms” All About Angular’s New Signal Forms Dynamic Forms: Building a Form Generator with Signal Forms Dynamic Forms built by a form generator have quite a h...

www.angulararchitects.io

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, we finished another #AngularArchitecture workshop. Here are the things the participants especially liked (grouped by ChatGPT):

✅ Expertise & Teaching Style
✅ Depth and Topical Relevance
✅ Mix of Theory, Demos & Practice
✅ Structure & Clarity
✅ Atmosphere & Enthusiasm

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for having me ❤️

Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

Today, at @angular_asia, I did about 90 min live coding to show all the things in @angular's new Signal Forms (experimental). Here is the recording 👇

www.youtube.com/live/6upUg89...

Signal Forms

YouTube video by Ng Asia Angular

www.youtube.com

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

In 45 min, we are going live!

Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

Don't forget to tune in tonight at 18:00 CEST. Using a lot of #live_coding I will give an overview of all the possibilities @angular's new Signal Forms (experimental) currently provide:

✅ Standard Schema Support
✅ Custom Validators
✅ Validation Errors
✅ Using Schemas
✅ Conditional Validation

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

✅ Multi-Field Validators
✅ Async Validators
✅ Http Validators
✅ Nested Forms
✅ From Groups & Arrays
✅ Custom Controls
✅ Meta Data

You can directly find the live stream on the YouTube page of @angular_asia

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 5d

Don't forget to tune in tonight at 18:00 CEST. Using a lot of #live_coding I will give an overview of all the possibilities @angular's new Signal Forms (experimental) currently provide:

✅ Standard Schema Support
✅ Custom Validators
✅ Validation Errors
✅ Using Schemas
✅ Conditional Validation

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Michael Small @michaelsmalldev.bsky.social · 7d

My summary of what is Zone, then what that means Zoneless is, Zoneless going stable in 20.2, and default in v21: www.reddit.com/r/angular/co.... Nothing is news-news, but I wanted to get links to docs and PRs all together for quick reference for myself and others.

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Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 7d

2/2 Here are some alternatives. Also, you can disable fields in some circumstances. There is also readonly and hidden ...

Manfred Steyer @manfredsteyer.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 Did you know that Angular's new Signal Forms (prototype, experimental) allows conditional validation? Here, the rules in the 2nd schema are only applied for delayed flights.