Signal Forms: [formField] bound to a CVA control (e.g. mat-chip-listbox) crashes with "this.field(...) is not a function" on a native double-click

Inizia con la riproduzione minima collegata e riproduci il malfunzionamento del doppio clic sincrono, quindi esamina lo stack di @angular/forms/signals intorno a FormField.state e ɵngControlUpdate, confrontando un clic con due clic nello stesso turno attraverso il bridge ControlValueAccessor. Il lavoro è concluso quando la riproduzione non segnala più TypeError o NG01902 e la mat-chip-listbox associata rimane utilizzabile in caso di clic ripetuti.

Which @angular/* package(s) are the source of the bug?

forms

Is this a regression?

No

Description

Binding [formField] to a component that Signal Forms integrates via the ControlValueAccessor bridge (e.g. mat-chip-listbox) crashes with TypeError: this.field(...) is not a function when two click events fire synchronously in the same JS turn - which is exactly what a native double-click produces (browsers dispatch two click events before dblclick).

This is not specific to a dynamic/record-keyed field - it reproduces with a single, plain, statically-named field on a minimal one-field form. It also surfaces the related error NG01902: Orphan field, looking for property '<key>' of <root> on the same trigger.

Reproduced two ways:

• el.click(); el.click(); on the chip option, in the same script turn (no animation/timing involved)
• Playwright's .dblclick()

A debounce() on the field does not prevent it (tested both applied and unset).

Minimal reproduction

import { Component, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { form, FormField } from '@angular/forms/signals';
import { provideAnimationsAsync } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations/async';
import { MatChipsModule } from '@angular/material/chips';

interface Model {
  color: string;
}

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  standalone: true,
  imports: [FormField, MatChipsModule],
  template: `
    <mat-chip-listbox [formField]="colorForm.color">
      <mat-chip-option value="red">Red</mat-chip-option>
      <mat-chip-option value="blue">Blue</mat-chip-option>
    </mat-chip-listbox>
  `,
})
export class App {
  model = signal<Model>({ color: '' });
  colorForm = form(this.model);
}

bootstrapApplication(App, { providers: [provideAnimationsAsync()] });

Steps:

1. Load the page.
2. Double-click either chip option (or, via devtools console:
   document.querySelector('mat-chip-option').click(); document.querySelector('mat-chip-option').click();).

Verified locally against exactly this minimal component (isolated from any larger app code) with both trigger methods above - 0 errors on a single click, crashes reliably on every double-click / synchronous double-click().

Please provide a link to a minimal reproduction of the bug

https://github.com/CSchulz/angular-signal-forms-dblclick-repro

Please provide the exception or error you saw

ERROR TypeError: this.field(...) is not a function
    at FormField.state.ngDevMode.debugName [as computation] (@angular_forms_signals.js:3109:38)
    at Object.producerRecomputeValue (chunk-....js:300:25)
    at producerUpdateValueVersion (chunk-....js:110:8)
    at _FormField.computed2 [as state] (chunk-....js:263:5)
    at _FormField.ɵngControlUpdate (@angular_forms_signals.js:2910:31)
    at Object.update (chunk-....js:10664:33)
    at controlUpdateInternal (chunk-....js:8546:14)
    at Module.ɵɵcontrol (chunk-....js:8532:3)


and, on repeated triggering:


RuntimeError: NG01902: Orphan field, looking for property 'color' of <root>.

Please provide the environment you discovered this bug in (run ng version)

Angular CLI: 22.0.6
Angular: 22.0.6
@angular/material: 22.0.4
@angular/cdk: 22.0.4
Node.js: 24.15.0
TypeScript: 6.0.3
rxjs: 7.8.2

Anything else?

Re-verified 2026-08-19 against:

• 22.2.0-next.2/22.2.0-next.3 (next dist-tag, i.e. the newest prerelease, not yet promoted to latest) - same crash, not fixed there either
• Also reproduces with provideNoopAnimations() instead of provideAnimationsAsync() - not animation-timing-related

Is mat-chip-listbox required, or would any CVA control do?

Every frame in the stack trace above is @angular/forms/signals code - no @angular/material code appears in it, so the defect itself is squarely in Signal Forms. That said, a hand-written, Material-free ControlValueAccessor component (tried both a plain two-<button> version and a more faithful one with nested child components, ChangeDetectorRef.markForCheck(), and an
EventEmitter) does not reproduce the crash under the same conditions (page.dblclick() on a never-before-clicked element). So mat-chip-listbox isn't strictly required, but something about its specific interaction pattern is a necessary trigger for this repro, and that trigger has not been identified yet - this app has no zone.js dependency (it's zoneless), which already rules out one candidate (CDK's FocusMonitor/MatRipple moving work in and out of NgZone, since without zone.js those calls are inert no-ops).

Additional context

• We first hit this in an app with a dynamic per-key record model bound via [formField]="form[dynamicKey]" to a mat-chip-listbox inside an @for loop - but the minimal repro above shows the dynamic-key/loop aspect isn't required at all; a single static field on a single-field form is enough.
• Workaround: bind the CVA-based control manually ([value]/(change) reading and writing field().value directly) instead of [formField], bypassing the affected path entirely - at the cost of losing automatic touched/disabled/focus wiring for that control.