Simple-forms-react NPM

simple-forms-react

yet another Form component

install

npm i -S simple-forms-react

usage (simple, no validation)

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime';

import Form from 'simple-forms-react';

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <h2>Simple Forms React!</h2>
    <Form
      initialValues={{
        itemName: 'Coconut',
      }}
      onSubmit={({ values }) => {
        console.log(values);
      }}
    >
      {({ values, touched, fieldProps, handleSubmit }) => (
        <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
          <div>
            <input
              {...fieldProps({
                id: 'itemName',
                placeholder: 'Type to add item name',
                value: values.itemName,
              })}
            />
            {touched.itemName && values.itemName && <h5>{values.itemName}</h5>}
          </div>
          <div>
            <select
              {...fieldProps({
                id: 'fruit',
                value: values.fruit,
              })}
            >
              <option value="">---select---</option>
              <option value="apple">apple</option>
              <option value="orange">orange</option>
              <option value="grapes">grapes</option>
            </select>
            {touched.fruit && values.fruit && <h5>{values.fruit}</h5>}
          </div>
          <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
        </form>
      )}
    </Form>
  </div>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

usage (with validation, sync and async)

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import styled from 'styled-components';
import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime';
import Form from 'simple-forms-react';
import Spinner from './Spinner';

const Container = styled.div`
  padding: 10px;
`;
const ButtonDiv = styled.div`
  margin: 30px 0;
`;
const Error = styled.div`
  color: red;
`;
const InputHolder = styled.div`
  margin: 12px 0;
`;

const nameValidator = val => {
  const regex = new RegExp(/^\d+$/);
  return !regex.test(val)
    ? { valid: true }
    : { valid: false, message: 'No numbers allowed' };
};
const emptyValidator = val =>
  !val ? { valid: false, message: 'This is required' } : { valid: true };

const usernameValidator = val =>
  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve({ valid: true }), 5000);
  });

const App = () => (
  <Container>
    <h1>simple-forms-react</h1>
    <Form
      initialValues={{
        name: '',
        username: '',
      }}
      validators={{
        name: [emptyValidator, nameValidator],
        username: [emptyValidator, usernameValidator],
      }}
      onSubmit={({ values, setSubmitting }) => {
        console.log('Submitted values: ', values);
        setSubmitting(false);
      }}
    >
      {({
        values,
        touched,
        errors,
        valid,
        fieldProps,
        handleSubmit,
        isSubmitting,
      }) => (
        <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
          <InputHolder>
            <label>Name: </label>
            <input
              {...fieldProps({
                id: 'name',
                value: values.name,
                placeholder: 'Enter your name',
              })}
            />
            {touched.name && errors.name && <Error>{errors.name}</Error>}
          </InputHolder>
          <InputHolder>
            <label>Username</label>
            <input
              {...fieldProps({
                id: 'username',
                value: values.username,
                placeholder: 'type your username',
              })}
            />
            {valid.username && <Spinner radius="10" stroke="2" />}
            {touched.username &&
              errors.username && <Error>{errors.username}</Error>}
          </InputHolder>
          <ButtonDiv>
            {isSubmitting ? (
              <Spinner />
            ) : (
              <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
            )}
          </ButtonDiv>
        </form>
      )}
    </Form>
  </Container>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

third-party components integration

react-select integration

api

`Form` props

name	type	default	description
initialValues	Object	{}	you should pass all the fields as keys and their default/initial values
children	function	`({values, touched, errors, valid, isSubmitting, fieldProps, handleSubmit, setValues, setSubmitting}) => {}`	this function should return the JSX which contains the form and all inputs
validators	Object	{}	this contains validators for each input, please see Validator section to see the contract of a validator function

`children` function arguments

name	type	description
values	Object	contains values of all the inputs
touched	Object	key-value of inputs and whether they've been touched or not
errors	Object	errors object contains error message for inputs if there's an error
valid	boolean	tells if the entire form is valid or not
isSubmitting	boolean	tells if the form is submitting, useful to make your submit button disabled or hide altogether
fieldProps	function	this returns the props that need to be applied on the input, you should pass all the props in as an object, it chains onChange and other things which Form uses internally
handleSubmit	function	use this as onSubmit prop of `<form>`
setValues	function	accepts an object and updates the values of the inputs as per the passed argument
setSubmitting	function	a helper utility to change the `isSubmitting` flag.