reduxify-form

Improve redux-form api to give your connected form all of the state it needs! 🐧

why

the redux-form API has some quirks. your reduxForm(...)'ed component isn't passed all of the form state you need.

For example:

• by default, you can't see all of your validation errors, or form values in the root component (see #2299)
• when you want to get extra props into your reduxForm'd component, you end up doing some double wrapping/connecting of your exports. it's a little wonky!

this package makes setting up your form easier to get all the rich form state you need!

usage

npm install --save reduxify-form

consider the example of how redux-form recommends getting extra state into your form.

// redux-form provided example, simplified/condensed
 
// boring old imports
import React from 'react'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { Field, reduxForm, formValueSelector } from 'redux-form'
 
// boring old form component
let MyForm = (props) => {
  const { firstName, handleSubmit } = props
  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      <Field name="firstName" component="input" type="text" placeholder="First Name"/>
      <input value={`You've typed: ${firstName}`} />
      <Field name="lastName" component="input" type="text" placeholder="Last Name"/>
    </form>
  )
}
 
// connect redux-form to our component for the first time...
MyForm = reduxForm({
  form: 'myForm'
})(MyForm)
 
// connect our component again to get some additional state
MyForm = connect(
  state => {
    const firstName = formValueSelector('myForm')(state, 'firstName')
    return { firstName }
  }
)(MyForm)
 
export default MyForm

ok, that's not too bad! unforunately, not all selectors work. see #2299. further, this could be a little bit friendlier! let's examine how reduxify-form helps.

// reduxify-form example
 
// one extra import!
import React from 'react'
import { Field } from 'redux-form'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { reduxifyForm } from 'reduxify-form' // <== this guy :)
 
let MyForm = (props) => {
  // note where we get our additional state from now
  const { formState: { firstName }, handleSubmit } = props
  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      <Field name="firstName" component="input" type="text" placeholder="First Name"/>
      <input value={`You've typed: ${firstName.value}`} />
      <Field name="lastName" component="input" type="text" placeholder="Last Name"/>
    </form>
  )
}
 
// wait, and this is it?
// yup!  just one call to get all of that additional state (like field values, such as firstName)
export default reduxifyForm({
  component: MyForm,
  formName: 'myform',
  connect
})
 

api

reduxifyForm({ component: Component, formName, [connect], [getState] }) : Component

export default reduxifyForm({
  component: MyForm,
  formName: 'myform'
})

by default, behaves similarly to reduxForm whilst applying additional form state to your props.

addtional props come through as props.formState. what is exactly in formState, you ask? content from redux-form state selectors.

// selectors are from http://redux-form.com/6.3.1/docs/api/ReduxForm.md/
props.formState = {
  values: getFormValues(formName)(state),
  syncErrors: getFormSyncErrors(formName)(state),
  submitErrors: getFormSubmitErrors(formName)(state)
}

want different content in formState? no problem. pass a custom function via getState.

export default reduxifyForm({
  component: MyForm,
  formName: 'myform'
  getState: function (formName, state) {
    // return any selectors from redux form
    return {
      dirty: isDirty(formName)(state),
      pristine: isPristine(formName)(state),
      invalid: isInvalid(formName)(state),
      myFieldValue: formValueSelector(formName)(state, 'myField'),
      fruit: 'bananas'
    }
  }
})

init(connect) : undefined

rather than passing connect on every form call, you can bind reduxify-form to connect just once, so it works with all of your forms.

import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { reduxifyForm, init } from 'reduxify-form'
init(connect)
 
// now you don't need to provided `connect` to any reduxifyForm calls
export default reduxifyForm({
  component: MyForm,
  formName: 'myform',
  connect
})