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React Form Builder

A complete form builder for react that takes a schema and generate form with fields and validations and takes care of all the state management and form submissions:

Example:

import { FormBuilder, Schema } from "react-form-builder-sl";
import "react-form-builder-sl/dist/index.css";

function App() {
  const schema: Schema = {
    fields: [
      {
        name: "email",
        type: "input",
        label: "Email",
        inputProps: {
          type: "email",
        },
        validations: {
          required: true,
          isEmail: true,
        },
      },
      {
        name: "password",
        type: "input",
        label: "Password",
        inputProps: {
          type: "password",
        },
        validations: {
          required: true,
          min: 8,
          max: 16,
        },
      },
    ],
  };
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <header className="App-header">
        <FormBuilder
          schema={schema}
          onSubmit={(values) => console.log(values)}
        />
      </header>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

FormBuilderProps

schema: The schema of the form with the information about the fields and their validations
formContainerStyles: Styles for the form formContainerStyles
submitButtontext: Text for the submit submit button. Default is 'Submit'\

Schema

fields: Fields[] - An array of all the fields in the form following the Field interface.

Field

name: string - Name of the Field
type: "input" | "textarea" | "dropdown" | "checkbox" | "radio" - Type of the Field
initialValue?: string | number | boolean - Initial value of the field
label?: string - Label of the field
validations?: FieldValidations - Validations to apply to the field. Should follow the FieldValidations interface.
inputProps?: InputHTMLAttributes<HTMLInputElement> - Props to supply to the input element of this field.\

FieldValidations

isString: boolean - true if the field should be a string
isNumber: boolean - true if the field should be a number
isEmail: boolean - true if the field should be a email
required: boolean - true if the field should be a requied
min: number - Minimum value/length of the field. If field is string, validation will be applied to the length of the value. If the field is number, validation will be applied to the actual value.
max: number - Maximum value/length of the field. If field is string, validation will be applied to the length of the value. If the field is number, validation will be applied to the actual value.\

Contribution Guide

  1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/ahsansheikh94/react-form-builder.git

  2. Install dependencies pnpm install

  3. Checkout to your branch git checkout -b <your_branch_name>

  4. Make your changes

  5. Create a changeset and add change log by running: pnpm changeset

  6. Finalize changelog and increment version by running: pnpm changeset version

  7. Push your changes

git add .
git commit -m"<something amazing>"
git push
  1. Submit a PR

##Thank you!

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