overmind-forms

A basic forms implementation based on the concepts from cerebral-forms.

Install

yarn add overmind-forms

or

npm install overmind-forms

Setup

Configure your overmind app for use with overmind-forms, the commented lines to your app.ts

// app.ts
import { Overmind, TApp } from 'overmind'
import { namespaced } from 'overmind/es/config'
import { TConnect, createConnect } from 'overmind-react'
 
import * as login from './modules/login'
import form from 'overmind-forms/module' // add this line
 
const config = namespaced({
  login,
  form // and this one too
})
 
declare module 'overmind' {
  interface IApp extends TApp<typeof config> {}
}
 
export const app = new Overmind(config)
export type Connect = TConnect<typeof app>
export const connect = createConnect(app)

Example Module

The following example shows creating a form in login module

// modules/login/state.ts
import form from 'overmind-forms'
import { isEmail } from 'validator'
 
export let loginForm = form({
  email: { value: '', isValid: isEmail },
  password: { value: '', isValid: value => value.length > 1 }
})

Example Component

// components/Login/index.tsx
import React from 'react'
import { connect, Connect } from '../../app'
 
const Login: React.StatelessComponent<Connect> = ({ app }) => (
  <form
    onSubmit={e => {
      e.preventDefault()
      app.actions.login.formSubmitted()
    }}>
    <input
      className={app.login.email.showError ? 'error' : ''}
      value={app.login.email.value}
      onChange={e =>
        app.form.setField({
          field: app.login.email,
          value: e.target.value
        })
      }
    />
    <input
      className={app.login.password.showError ? 'error' : ''}
      value={app.login.password.value}
      type="password"
      onChange={e =>
        app.actions.form.setField({
          field: app.login.password,
          value: e.target.value
        })
      }
    />
    <button type="submit" disabled={app.login.loginForm.isValid}>
      Submit
    </button>
  </form>
)