Multiselect as email input

Hi!

I'm trying to create an email input control. Something similar to how gmail works, where you can type and get autocompletion and where the email is converted to a "chip" that have an "x" on the right for removing. The multiselect already looks very close to what I need to achieve, but I need to be able to enter freeform convert to chip on enter or after a comma is added.

I realize that the multiselect is not designed that way, and freeform text is not really compatible with multiselect.

So the question I have is... Is there a way to use some of the building blocks of the multiselect to achieve a similar result?

I need to create a custom control to convert a freeform "John Doe <jd@example.com>" To a chip that just displays the name.

Again, I understand I will need to write the bulk of the logic to support this behavior, but I don't see a "chip" control like the angular counterpart has. Maybe I'm missing something.

Cheers