I have a forgot-password form in Angular and I had to create a conditional validation in a template driven form for input field "Username or email" If a user enters @, it checks for email pattern, if its not, it checks for username pattern. Now I want to redo it but I want to use a reactive approach. I tried doing some solutions from the internet, but it didnt work.
Any advice is helpful
My Template driven HTML
<section class="h-100">
<div class="container h-100">
<div class="card forgot-password-form-card">
<div class="card-body p-5">
<h1 class="fs-4 card-title fw-bold mb-4">Forgot password</h1>
<form class="form" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(forgotPasswordForm, forgotPasswordForm.value.usernameEmail)"
#forgotPasswordForm="ngForm">
<div class="mb-3">
<p>Please enter your username or e-mail.
<br>You will receive a link to create a new password via e-mail. <br>
</p>
</div>
<div class="mb-5">
<label for="usernameEmail">Username or e-mail address</label>
<input id="usernameEmail" type="text" name="usernameEmail" class="form-control" ngModel required
[pattern]="usernameEmail.value?.includes('@') ? '^[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$' :
'[a-zA-Z0-9]{3,}'" #usernameEmail="ngModel" />
<div class="form-text text-danger"
*ngIf="(usernameEmail.touched || usernameEmail.dirty) && usernameEmail.errors?.['required']">
Username or e-mail is required
</div>
<div class="form-text text-danger" *ngIf="(usernameEmail.touched || usernameEmail.dirty)
&& usernameEmail.errors?.['pattern']">
Username or e-mail address is invalid
</div>
</div>
<div class="d-flex align-items-center">
<button [disabled]="!forgotPasswordForm.valid" type="submit" class="btn btn-dark
forgot-password-button col-5 mx-auto">
Get new password
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-light col-5 mx-auto" appBackButton>Back</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</section>
My .ts file (it doesnt contain much)
import { AbstractControl, AbstractControlOptions, FormBuilder, FormControl, Validators } from '@angular/forms';
import { AppConfig } from 'src/app/_common/configs/app.config';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
selector: 'app-forgot-password',
templateUrl: './forgot-password.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./forgot-password.component.scss'],
})
export class ForgotPasswordComponent {
appConfig = AppConfig;
usernameEmail = new FormControl(null, [
(c: AbstractControl) => Validators.required(c),
Validators.pattern()
]);
}
You can define your own custom validator function and do the checking there:
import {
AbstractControl,
ValidationErrors,
ValidatorFn,
Validators,
} from '@angular/forms';
export function emailOrUsernameValidator(usernameRe: RegExp): ValidatorFn {
return (control: AbstractControl): ValidationErrors | null => {
const usernameValidator = Validators.pattern(usernameRe);
return control.value?.includes('@')
? Validators.email(control)
: usernameValidator(control);
};
}
For the email validation, you can use the built in Validators.email
, and for the username you pass the regexp that you use in the template:
usernameEmail = new FormControl(null, [
Validators.required,
emailOrUsernameValidator(/[a-zA-Z0-9]{3,}/)
]);
To use the reactive forms, you need to let go of ngModel
. This is how the template should look:
<div class="mb-5">
<label for="usernameEmail">Username or e-mail address</label>
<input
id="usernameEmail"
type="text"
name="usernameEmail"
class="form-control"
required
[formControl]="usernameEmail"
/>
<div class="form-text text-danger" *ngIf="usernameEmail.hasError('required')">
Username or e-mail is required
</div>
<div class="form-text text-danger" *ngIf="usernameEmail.hasError('email')">
The provided e-mail address is invalid
</div>
<div class="form-text text-danger" *ngIf="usernameEmail.hasError('pattern')">
The provided username is invalid
</div>
</div>