I was recently working on a Drupal form where I needed a user to select from a list of options that were available in a field attached to an entity. As the entity itself didn't exist when the user was filling in the form I needed a way of finding out the options that could be applied to the field.
Getting a list of values from a field allows for numerous possibilities within Drupal, including configuring modules and creating wizards for generating content. As it took me a little while to track down how to do this I thought a quick post might come in handy for anyone looking to do the same.
In order to get the values available in a field we first need to create a blank entity. This will be used by the field storage system to load the correct field definitions.
Read more here: https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-9-loading-options-option-field