Handle React forms with joy

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<Enform /> helps you manage:

• form validation
• form dirty state
• form submission and reset
• field values and changes
• error messages

Forms in React are common source of frustration and code repetition. Enform moves that hassle out of the way.

✔️ Check the docs with live demos or jump to the basic usage.

So, another form component?

Many form libraries are after wide range of use cases. As a result they grow in size bigger than the few form components one may ever need to handle. Enform is built for most common use cases without going to the edge. Thanks to that it remains small, but very powerful.

Basic usage

import React from "react";
import Enform from "enform";

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <h1>Simple form</h1>
    <Enform
      initial={{ name: "" }}
      validation={{ name: values => values.name === "" }}
    >
      {props => (
        <div>
          <input
            className={props.errors.name ? "error" : ""}
            type="text"
            value={props.values.name}
            onChange={e => {
              props.onChange("name", e.target.value);
            }}
          />
          <button onClick={props.onSubmit}>Submit</button>
        </div>
      )}
    </Enform>
  </div>
);

View more intereactive examples here.

This ⚠️ note on re-rendering gives answers to some common questions about auto updating field values based on changes in the initial prop.

Install

yarn add enform

Requirements ✅

Enform is using React hooks ↩ as per v2.0.0.

Consumer projects should have react >= 16.8.0 (the one with hooks) in order to use it.

API

Component props

Prop	Type	Required	Description
children	function	yes	Function that your need to wrap your DOM with. It accepts the props object to help with form state manipulation.
initial	object	yes	Initial form field values in a form of { fieldName: value, ... }.
validation	object	no	Validation for the fields. It takes the form of { fieldName: function(values), ... } where function(values) accepts all form field values and should return an error message or truthy value. Example: { username: values => values.username === "" ? "This field is required" : false }.

✔️ Read more about these props here.

State Api

Enform exposes its handy Api by passing an object down to the function wrapper.

<Enform initial={{ name: "" }}>
  {props => (
    <form />
      ...
    </form>
  )}
</Enform>

The props object contains 2 data items:

prop	Description
values	Current field values - { fieldName: value, ... }.
errors	Current field errors - { fieldName: errorMessage, ... }.

and these 8 methods:

method	Description
onChange	Updates single field's value - onChange(fieldName, value). The value is usually what what comes from e.target.value. Side effects: clears previously set field error.
onSubmit	onSubmit(successCallback). Usually attached to a button click or directly to <form /> onSubmit. successCallback(values) will only be executed if all validations pass. Side effects: triggers validation or calls successCallback.
reset	Empties form elements.
isDirty	Reports if the form is dirty. It takes into account the initial field values passed to <Enform />.
validateField	Triggers single form field validation - validateField(fieldName).
clearError	Clears single form field's error - clearError(fieldName).
clearErrors	Clears all errors in the form.
setErrors	Sets Enform's internal error state directly. This may be handy when props.errors needs to be updated based on an API call (async) and not on user input. Example: setErrors({ email: "Example error message" }, ...)

props.values get updated with onChange and reset calls.

props.errors get updated with onChange, onSubmit, reset, validateField, clearError, clearErrors and setErrors calls.

✔️ See more details about Enform's state API.

Documentation

Docs has its own home here. It further expands on the topics covered previously. Many examples and how to guides for variety of use cases take place on its pages too. Ref to this ⚠️ note on re-rendering for a common pitfall case.

Development

Run tests with jest in watch mode

yarn test

or no watch

yarn test:nowatch

Get gzip size by

yarn size

Build with

yarn build

That will pipe src/Enform.js through babel and put it as index.js under lib/ folder.

Contributing

You are welcome to open pull requests, issues with bug reports (use codesandbox) and suggestions or simply tweet about Enform. Check the relavant guides here.

Immediate and fun contrubution: help create more usable examples. Is it a full-fetured form, third party integration or a filter form with bunch of options - feel free fork the basic form in codesandbox.

Inspiration

Enform is inspired by my experience with form refactoring, @jaredpalmer's great work on Formik and the way @kamranahmedse's presented driver.js.

Authors

Miroslav Nikolov (@moubi)

License

MIT