AngularJS 1.5+ Components do not support Watchers, what is the work around?

Question

I\'ve been upgrading my custom directives to the new component architecture. I\'ve read that components do not support watchers. Is this correct? If so how do you detect cha

Answer 1

A small heads-up regarding the use of ng-change, as recommended with the accepted answer, together with an angular 1.5 component.

In case you need to watch a component that ng-model and ng-change do not work, you can pass the parameters as:

Markup in which component is used:

Component js:

angular
  .module('myComponent')
  .component('myComponent', {
    bindings: {
      onChange: '&',
      fieldValue: '='
    }
  });

Component markup: