What the Forms?

This is a NodeJS module for dealing with forms.

Forms can be a tricky business, so we're here to help!

VERY EARLY ALPHA STAGE!!!!!

The name for this library is based on the inspiration for this library, WTForms which is written for Python.

To use the development version, you need to run make to build a few things that are required

Express

WhatTheForms works with Express, a quick guide of what you need to do:

npm install body-parser --save

In app (Javascript):

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))

app.use(function(req, res, next){
    res.error = function(err, msg){
        res.status(err).json({
            code:  err,
            message: msg
        });
    };
    next();
});

Note: The second app.use is a boilerplate used for errors, you should generally use a HTML template so that users don't get confused. Essentially, it makes error reporting really easy to do from your application.

Notes

Some things are reserved for usage inside of WhatTheForms

• GET /<your form URL>?request=whattheforms - This returns the form metadata required for client-side validation. See CDN to make this optimized for production applications.