How to get value of a FormControl in Angular4

Question

I have some experience in Angular4, but I just inherited a piece of code that uses FormControls, and I don\'t know how to work with them. I am setting up a comments textarea th

Answer 1

Having validation at the FormGroup level in the component

this.loginForm = new FormGroup({
  'email': new FormControl('example@example.com', Validators.compose([
    Validators.required,
    Validators.pattern('^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$')
  ])),

I was able to pluck the email value like this in my function:

email = this.loginForm.value.email

Worked for me - hope it helps you.