Angular 2+ support

[mmc41]

Now that Angular2 has been released, is there any plans to port angular-schema-form to Angular 2 ?

[Anthropic]

Absolutely, we are already looking into it. Hard to give a timeline, but we have a few avenues we are looking at on the best way to proceed.

[mmc41]

@Anthropic Ok. I guess I need to roll my own solution than of my Angular2 app (in fact already stated) I only need to support a subset of the functionality with a custom non-bootstrap gui anyway + I am using typescript 2.0 (not plain js). If it makes sense, we could work together but properly not easy to align requirements, time, architecture-ideas etc.

[jazzmanro]

Or, could a hybrid Angular 1 + 2 model be used meanwhile? We already use a v2 application and I guess that Angular's UpgradeAdapter may work to integrate v1 directives like schema form.
Does anyone have a working simple example how this could be achieved?

[Anthropic]

@mmc41 @jazzmanro I have already heard of people using the upgrade adapter to use it within an ng2 app.

[jazzmanro]

Would be so great if anyone could post a simple working example, even if it uses other library than schema form. My lack of Angular experience gave me too many headaches when trying this, without success so far.

[bombompb]

I agree with the fact that we would like to have a working example which uses the hybrid Angular 1-2 UpgradeAdapter till this project gets ported to Angular 2 completely. Can anyone help in this?

@Anthropic: Can you please try to give some estimate on the porting? How is it progressing?

[Anthropic]

@nicklasb did you know of a hybrid version working and how ng2 would work with the form?

[mmc41]

Nb. See also "json-schema-form/json-schema-form-core#3" for a suggestion on how to more easily retarget for various web frameworks, incl. Angular 2.

[cheprus]

Here is probably a temporary alternative https://github.com/makinacorpus/angular2-schema-form
Untill the angular-schema-form will be ported to Angular 2.

[nicklasb]

@Anthropic , @mmc41 , @cheprus :
It is possible to use ASF in Angular 2 with ngUpgrade for the time being.

I use it in the administrative interface for my framework:
https://github.com/OptimalBPM/of-admin/wiki/App-Entry-&-Bootstrapping

[nicklasb]

The admin UI is also Angular 2, BTW.
Because A2 is about components, that part is kind of contained anyway, so it works well.
Sure, if one starts to intertwine stuff directly, one might encounter some problems, on the other hand, that is not a very nice architectural design choice.
I expect to be able to, basically, simply remove the ngUpgrade wrapper when ASF gets A2 support.

[Valery-vs]

Hi
Any estimation for this issue?

[cmartin81]

+1

[Anthropic]

The first alpha of the core is out, once a few more fixes and a clean API are added then ng2 work can start using it. Timelines are a bit tricky to indicate, never know how much time anyone will have. I suspect once I get the ASF alpha out shortly that there may be a few more contributors willing to help work on it.