Exploring Angular forms
If we take a look at our current .NET Core with Angular projects, we will see how none of them allow our users to interact with the data:
- For the
HealthCheck
app, this is expected since there's simply no data to deal with: this is a monitor app that doesn't store anything and requires no input from the user. - The
WorldCities
app, however, tells a whole different story: we do have a database that we use to return results to our users, who could – at least theoretically – be allowed to make changes.
It goes without saying that the WorldCities
app would be our best candidate for implementing our forms. In the following sections, we'll do just that, starting with the Angular front-end and then moving to the .NET Core back-end.
Forms in Angular
Let's take a minute to briefly review our WorldCities
app in the state we left it in at the end of Chapter 5, Fetching and Displaying Data. If we take a look...