formie

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formie NPM version

** CommonJS/Browserified ajax form submission **

Formie submits form data via AJAX. Formie supports JSONP, GET, POST, DELETE and multipart/form-data file Uploads without the baggage of a full framework.

API Documenation

Example

Check out example/index.html, the example javascript for the example page is resources/js/example_src.js

Installation

$ npm install formie

Formie is a browserified/commonjs javascript module.

Usage

JavaScript

var Formie = require('formie'),
    myFormie;
 
//initialize nav component after the dom has loaded
window.addEventListener('load',function(){
    myFormie = new Formie({
    ajaxformselector: '#formie',
    headers: {'customheader':'customvalue'},
    beforesubmitcallback: function(event,formelement){console.log(event,formelement)},
    successcallback: function(response){console.log(response)},
    errorcallback: function(error,response){console.log(error,response)}
  });
    //expose your nav component to the window global namespace
    window.myFormie = myFormie;
});

HTML

<html>
    <head>
   <title>Your Page</title>
   <script src='[path/to/browserify/bundle].js'></script> 
    </head>
    <body>
        <form method="get" action="" id="formie">
        <section>
          <label for="field1">Field 1</label>
          <input type="text" value="" name="field1" id="field1" />
        </section>
        <section>
          <label for="field2">Field 2</label>
          <input type="text" value="" name="field2" id="field2" />
        </section>
        <section>
          <input type="submit" value="ajax submit" name="submitbutton" />
        </section>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

OPTIONS

defaultOptions = {
    ajaxsubmitfileuploadclassname: 'formie-file', //file input class to readAsDataURL
    ajaxformselector: '#formie', //formie form selector
    ajaxsubmitform: null,
    jsonp: false, //retrieves data via JSONP, form data must contain a 'callback' parameter
    autosubmitselectors: '.autoFormSubmit',
    autosubmitelements: [],
    preventsubmitselectors: '.noFormSubmit',
    preventsubmitelements: [],
    headers: {}, // custom headers to submit
    queryparameters: {}, // programmitcally add more get data
    postdata: {}, // programmitcally add more post data
    beforesubmitcallback: null, // callback(event,formelement)  
    errorcallback: null, // callback(error,response)
    successcallback: null // callback(response)
};

API

//submit formie via ajax
myFormie.submit(); 
 
//events
myFormie.on('autosubmitelement',callback); // callback(formelement)
myFormie.on('prevententer',callback); // callback(eventTarget)
myFormie.on('initialized',callback); // callback()
myFormie.on('submitted',callback); // callback(formieData)

Development

Make sure you have grunt installed

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Then run grunt watch

$ grunt watch #uses grunt-connect on port 8181 

For generating documentation

$ grunt doc
$ jsdoc2md lib/**/*.js index.js > doc/api.md

Notes

  • The Formie uses Node's event Emitter for event handling.
  • In order to test post submission, grunt connect is used on port 8181

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npm i formie

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Version

1.2.0

License

MIT

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