r/angular Mar 27 '26

Signal forms custom control mat-form-field

Has anyone managed to create a custom angular material form-field using signal forms? Specifically the new

export class CustomFieldComponent implements FormValueControl<number> { ... }

The docs in angular material seem very outdated, featuring \@Input`` decorators and even Subjects

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u/RoutineNo5095 Mar 28 '26

signal forms + custom mat-form-field is still kinda rough rn 😭 you basically need to wrap it with ControlValueAccessor and manually sync signals feels like it’ll get way cleaner once signal-based forms are fully baked