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Duc Ng
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ui-form-field - A simpler way to work with Forms in React

ui-form-field is my attempt to address complicate form rendering in React. It is being used actively in many projects with positive feedbacks from engineers.

Features:

  • Render different form layouts: Bootstrap 4, Semantic UI, Spectre and more. (including horizontal layout, inline fields)
  • Compatible with formik. This is built on top of formik and can be used together with it (for custom fields, etc.)
  • Support popular and advanced field types: react-select, multi-select, tag input with auto-complete, etc.
  • Simplify complicate use cases like: Dynamic (conditional) field rendering, mixing with other components within the form, custom fields.
  • Works well on mobile screens.
import { FormContainer, Form, Field, Button } from 'ui-form-field'; <FormContainer onSubmit={this.onSubmit} render={props => ( <Form use="bootstrap4"> <Field label="Text" name="text" /> <Field name="password" /> <Field textarea name="textarea" /> <Field select options={animals} name="select" /> <Field radios options={genders} name="radio" /> <Field checkboxes options={roles} name="checkboxes" /> <Field checkbox name="singleCheckbox" /> <Field singleSelect options={animals} name="singleSelect" /> <Field multiSelect options={animals} name="multiSelect" /> <Field tagSelect name="tags" options={tags} /> <Field number name="number" /> <Field date name="date" /> <Field time name="time" /> <Field toggle inline name="toggle" /> <Field file label="File Upload" name="file1" /> <Field file withPreview label="File Upload (with Preview)" name="file2" /> <Field range name="range" /> <Button type="submit"/> <Button>Cancel</Button> </Form> )} /> 
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Result: (Full form, with validation (with yup) & error messages)

Example

Demo
Github

I appreciate any feedbacks, suggestions or ideas below. Thanks! :)

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Sung M. Kim • Edited

ui-form-field looks easy to use, Duc Ng 👊

And the funny thing is that the previous post in #react I see is the following post 😮.

Your library seems to follow abstractions in the post.
And more over, there is a section called Form.Fields?, which might be of help for your library IMHO.

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Duc Ng

An interesting use of context. Thanks for sharing!