Create a reusable FormGroup

The piece I was missing was mentioned in rusev's answer, and that is injecting the ControlContainer.

Turns out that if you place formGroupName on a component, and if that component injects ControlContainer, you get a reference to the container which contains that form. It's easy from here.

We create a sub-form component.

@Component({
  selector: 'sub-form',
  template: `
    <ng-container [formGroup]="controlContainer.control">
      <input type=text formControlName=foo>
      <input type=text formControlName=bar>
    </ng-container>
  `,
})
export class SubFormComponent {
  constructor(public controlContainer: ControlContainer) {
  }
}

Notice how we need a wrapper for the inputs. We don't want a form because this will already be inside a form. So we use an ng-container. This will be striped away from the final DOM so there's no unnecessary element.

Now we can just use this component.

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
    <form [formGroup]=form>
      <sub-form formGroupName=group></sub-form>
      <input type=text formControlName=baz>
    </form>
  `,
})
export class AppComponent  {
  form = this.fb.group({
    group: this.fb.group({
      foo: 'foo',
      bar: 'bar',
    }),
    baz: 'baz',
  })

  constructor(private fb: FormBuilder) {}
}

You can see a live demo on StackBlitz.

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This is an improvement over rusev's answer in a few aspects:

• no custom groupName input; instead we use the formGroupName provided by Angular
• no need for @SkipSelf decorator, since we're not injecting the parent control, but the one we need
• no awkward group.control.get(groupName) which is going to the parent in order to grab itself.

Angular forms doesn't have concept for group name as for form control name. However you can quite easily workaround this by wrapping the child template in a form group.

Here is an example similar to the markup you've posted - https://plnkr.co/edit/2AZ3Cq9oWYzXeubij91I?p=preview

 @Component({
  selector: 'address-form-group',
  template: `
    <!-- child template -->
    <ng-container [formGroup]="group.control.get(groupName)">
      <input formControlName="country">
      <input formControlName="state">
      <input formControlName="city">
      <input formControlName="street">
      <input formControlName="building">
    </ng-container>
  `
})
export class AddressFormGroupComponent  { 
  @Input() public groupName: string;

  constructor(@SkipSelf() public group: ControlContainer) { }
}

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
    <!-- parent template -->
    <div [formGroup]="form">
      <input formControlName="username">
      <input formControlName="fullName">
      <input formControlName="password">
      <address-form-group groupName="address"></address-form-group>
    </div>
    {{form?.value | json}}
  `
})
export class AppComponent { 
  public form: FormGroup;

  constructor(private fb: FormBuilder) {
    this.form = this.fb.group({
      username: '',
      fullName: '',
      password: '',
      address: this.fb.group({
        country: '',
        state: '',
        city: '',
        street: '',
        building: '',
      })
    });
  }
}