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John Peters
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Angular: HTML Events and Asynchronous Handlers

#angular #typescript 
//A normal regular synchronous change detection
<input
 // the ngModel traid for 2 way data binding
  #city="ngModel"
  [(ngModel)]="address.city"
  (ngModelChange)=
    "address.city = onPropertyChange(city)"
  onPropertyChange(city) {       
      return city.viewModel;    
   }
/>
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Specification changes, we need to kick off asynchronous work. We think, no problem; we'll just make the function async.

  async onPropertyChange(city) {
      //Kick off this async job
      let something = await getSomething();
      return city.viewModel;    
   }
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NOPE
Can't do that, Angular throws an error.

Correct Way

 onPropertyChange(city) {
   Promise.All([getSomething]).then(result=>{
        //result here
   });        
   }
  return city.viewModel;    
 }
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Contain the async work inside the function!

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