My Life and Code

I recently upgraded a project to Angular 14. It's been a long running project, created using Angular 4 (I think), and even though I've been upgrading the version of Angular as new versions are released, I only recently learned that the  tsconfig.json  settings were the same as they'd been when the project was created, so I took the opportunity to bring those up to the current standards as well. Unfortunately, with the stricter template type-checking in place, some of my existing code no longer compiled. I figured that this would be a great time to switch over to the new Typed Forms introduced in Angular 14. One thing that threw me off a bit was how I could create a FormControl that doesn't allow nulls, but that also includes validation. The official docs mention supplying the nonNullable  option, but I was confused as to how I could also include my regular validation functions as there didn't seem to be an overload that supported that. But by digging a little deeper