react-jeff

A Good Form Library

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

React Jeff

A Good Form Library

  • ~800 bytes minified+gzip
  • Easy to learn API
  • Write your form code in a way that is reusable and testable
  • Seamless sync and async form validations (including on form submit)
  • Tons of utilty features out of the box
  • Written with React Hooks
  • Typed with TypeScript

Install

npm install react-jeff

Usage

import React from "react"
import { useField, useForm } from "react-jeff"

/**
 * 1. Write some validations that accept an input value and return an array of errors.
 * (If the array is empty, the value is considered valid)
 */

function validateUsername(value) {
    let errs = []
    if (value.length < 3) errs.push("Must be at least 3 characters long")
    if (!/^[a-z0-9_-]*$/i.test(value)) errs.push("Must only contain alphanumeric characters or dashes/underscores")
    if (!/^[a-z0-9]/i.test(value)) errs.push("Must start with alphanumeric character")
    if (!/[a-z0-9]$/i.test(value)) errs.push("Must end with alphanumeric character")
    return errs
}

function validatePassword(value) {
    let errs = []
    if (value.length < 6) errs.push("Must be at least 6 characters long")
    if (!/[a-z]/.test(value)) errs.push("Must contain at least one lowercase letter")
    if (!/[A-Z]/.test(value)) errs.push("Must contain at least one uppercase letter")
    if (!/[0-9]/.test(value)) errs.push("Must contain at least one number")
    return errs
}

/**
 * 2. Write some custom components that you'll reuse for all of your forms.
 */

function Form({ onSubmit, ...props }) {
    return (
        <form {...props} onSubmit={event => {
            event.preventDefault() // Make sure you call `event.preventDefault()` on your forms!
            onSubmit()
        }}/>
    )
}

function Input({ onChange, ...props }) {
    return (
        <input {...props} onChange={event => {
            onChange(event.currentTarget.value) // Make sure all of your inputs call `props.onChange` with the new value.
        }} />
    )
}

/**
 * 3. Create your form!
 */
 
function SignupForm() {
        // Create some fields...
    let username = useField({
        defaultValue: "",
        required: true,
        validations: [validateUsername],
    })

    let password = useField({
        defaultValue: "",
        required: true,
        validations: [validatePassword],
    })
    
    // Create your onSubmit handler...
    function onSubmit() {
        // Do something with the form...
    }
    
    // Create your form...
    let form = useForm({
        fields: [username, password],
        onSubmit: onSubmit,
    })
    
    // Write your UI!
    return (
        <Form {...form.props}>
            <Input type="text" {...username.props} />
            <Input type="password" {...password.props} />
            <button type="submit">Sign Up</button>
        </Form>
    )
}

API

useField()

Call useField() to create a single field in a form.

let field = useField({
    defaultValue: (value), // ....... (Required) The default value of the field.
    validations: [(...errors)], // .. (Optional) Validations to run when the field is `validate()`'d.
    required: boolean, // ........... (Optional) Should the field be required?
    disabled: boolean, // ........... (Optional) Should the field be disabled?
    readOnly: boolean, // ........... (Optional) Should the field be readOnly?
})
field == {
    value: (value), // ......... The current value of the field.
    defaultValue: (value), // .. The `defaultValue` passed into `useField({ defaultValue })`.

    dirty: boolean, // ......... Has the field been changed from its defaultValue?
    touched: boolean, // ....... Has the element this field is attached to been focused previously?
    focused: boolean, // ....... Is the element this field is attached to currently focused?
    blurred: boolean, // ....... Has the element this field is attached to been focused and then blurred?

    validating: boolean, // .... Is the field validating itself?
    valid: boolean, // ......... Is the field currently valid? (must have no errors, and if the field is required, must not be empty)
    errors: [(...errors)], // .. The collected errors returned by `opts.validations`

    required: boolean, // ...... Is the field required?
    disabled: boolean, // ...... Is the field disabled?
    readOnly: boolean, // ...... Is the field readOnly?

    setValue: Function, // ..... Call with a value to manually update the value of the field.
    setRequired: Function, // .. Call with true/false to manually set the `required` state of the field.
    setDisabled: Function, // .. Call with true/false to manually set the `disabled` state of the field.
    setReadOnly: Function, // .. Call with true/false to manually set the `readOnly` state of the field.

    reset: Function, // ........ Reset the field to its default state.
    validate: Function, // ..... Manually tell the field to validate itself (updating other fields).

    // Props to pass into an component to attach the `field` to it:
    props: {
        value: (value), // ....... The current value (matches `field.value`).

        onChange: Function, // ... An `onChange` handler to update the value of the field.
        onFocus: Function, // .... An `onFocus` handler to update the focused/touched/blurred states of the field.
        onBlur: Function, // ..... An `onFocus` handler to update the focused/blurred states of the field.

        required: boolean, // .... Should the element be `required`?
        disabled: boolean, // .... Should the element be `disabled`?
        readOnly: boolean, // .... Should the element be `readOnly`?
    },
}

useForm()

Call useForm() with to create a single form.

let form = useForm({
    fields: [(...fields)], // .. All of the fields created via `useField()` that are part of the form.
    onSubmit: Function, // ..... A submit handler for the form that receives the form submit event.
})
form == {
    fieldErrors: [(...errors)], // ... The collected errors from all of the fields in the form.
    submitErrors: [(...errors)], // .. The errors returned by `opts.onSubmit`.

    submitted: boolean, // ........... Has the form been submitted at any point?
    submitting: boolean, // .......... Is the form currently submitting?

    focused: boolean, // ............. Are *any* of the fields in the form currently `focused`?
    touched: boolean, // ............. Are *any* of the fields in the form currently `touched`?
    dirty: boolean, // ............... Are *any* of the fields in the form currently `dirty`?
    valid: boolean, // ............... Are *all* of the fields in the form currently `valid`?
    validating: boolean, // .......... Are *any* of the fields in the form currently `validating`?

    reset: Function, // .............. Reset all of the fields in the form.
    validate: Function, // ........... Validate all of the fields in the form.
    submit: Function, // ............. Submit the form manually.

    // Props to pass into a form component to attach the `form` to it:
    props: {
        onSubmit: Function, // ......... An onSubmit handler to pass to an element that submits the form.
    },
}