Alternative for Creating Forms in React.js
Have you ever needed to quickly spin up a form for your frontend application only to come across a plethora of problems such as state management or input validation?
React JSON-schema Form is a library that lets you effortlessly generate a form by simply passing it a JSON schema.
Getting Started
To use the rjs forms library you simply add it to your project’s dependencies by doing an npm install.
$ npm install react-jsonschema-form --saveDoing the actual Coding!
Once you have that installed in your React app, import it into React component and you’ll have access to its full functionality. For example if we wanted to create a form that asked the user for his/her name, occupation and age, all we would need to do is define a JSON schema for the form to shape to.
Once we have the schema defined we can simply create the form component passing in the schema and voilà we have a form!
Finishing thoughts
This is the form in its simplest and most straight-forward structure. rjs forms allows you to change and manipulate said structures in a multitude of different ways and this is just an introduction to it.
To get a deeper understanding of the library and its capabilities, such as being able to input custom fields or having custom array field management, visit their project at https://react-jsonschema-form.readthedocs.io/en/v1.8.1/ or dive directly into their docs!
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