dynamic-form-json
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dynamic-form-json is a tiny library to generate a Form in React automatically based on certain array of object that passed as a props
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Dynamic Form Json
dynamic-form-json
is a tiny library to generate a Form in React automatically based on certain array of object that passed as a props. This library use regular css created from scratch, so user can customize it in the future. On top of it, i use Formik and Yup for form's skeleton and validations. Credit goes to vijayranghar for the inspiration how to create dynamic validation on Yup from this link.
Installation
npm install dynamic-form-json
or yarn add dynamic-form-json
Peer Dependencies
Remember you also need to install the peer dependencies of this package. They are formik
, yup
, and styled-components
.
How to Use
Incase you are curious to try this library, you can implement it as the source code below.
index.js
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import App from "./App";
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
App.js
import DynamicForm from 'dynamic-form-json';
import { formData } from './data/formData';
function App() {
const handleSubmission = val => {
console.log('Values : 'val)
}
return (
<div>
<h2>My Amazing Form</h2>
<DynamicForm fields={formData} cbSubmit={handleSubmission} />
</div>
)
}
export default App;
formData.js
export const formData = [
{
id: "name",
label: "Full name",
placeholder: "Enter full name",
type: "text",
validationType: "string",
value: "",
validations: [
{
type: "required",
params: ["name is required"],
},
{
type: "min",
params: [5, "name cannot be less than 5 characters"],
},
{
type: "max",
params: [10, "name cannot be more than 10 characters"],
},
],
},
];
Supported Fields
Currently this library supports form input types such as:
[x] text
[x] select
[x] textarea
[x] radio
[x] checkbox
[x] upload
API
DynamicFormJSON - DynamicForm(fields: Array[Object], cbSubmit: Func)
This library could be imported by any name you like because we export it by default
approach. It also accepts two parameters which are named fields and cbSubmit. All params are required.
import DynamicForm from "dynamic-form-json";
fields
is a property that accepts array of object to create the inputs element inside a Form. The last one is cbSumbit
, which will handle the submission for you. It accepts a callback function.
TextField
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create TextField component. Not all of them are required. The properties required are id, and type.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------- | :------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="email" => label="Email"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | ""
|
| type | The type of the field | string <= enum["text", "password", "number", "email"] | true | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
SelectField
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create SelectField component.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------- | :------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="city" => label="City"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | "Please select"
|
| type | The type of the field | string <= "select" | true | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| options | The option list of the field / dropdown | array | false | []
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
TextArea
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create TextArea component.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------- | :----------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="address" => label="Address"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | ""
|
| type | The type of the field | string | true <= "textarea" | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
Radio
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create Radio component.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------- | :-------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="gender" => label="Gender"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | ""
|
| type | The type of the field | string | true <= "radio" | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| options | The option list of the radio field | array | false | []
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
Checkbox
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create Checkbox component.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------- | :----------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="hobbies" => label="Hobbies"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | ""
|
| type | The type of the field | string | true <= "checkbox" | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| options | The option list of the checkbox field | array | false | []
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
UploadField
These are the properties you can pass to an Object in formData array to create UploadField component.
| Name | Description | PropType | Required | Default Props |
| :------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------- | :------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id | This id will be put as the name of the field / input element | string | true | ""
/ empty string |
| label | The label of the field | string | false | Id (uppercase the first letter of id props). Example: id="photo" => label="Photo"
|
| placeholder | The placeholder of the field | string | false | ""
|
| type | The type of the field | string <= "upload" | true | ""
|
| value | The default value of the field | string | false | ""
|
| validationType | The validation type of the field. This is related to the type of data you'll enter in your field. If the data you will input to the field is number, you should make this as number. | string | false | "string"
|
| validations | Validation rule for this field. This is similar to yup API because we used yup under the hood. | array | false | "[]"
|
Info
This package is still on development. Not ready yet to use in production.