react-json-form-factory

React Form Builder

A dynamic form builder component for React applications. This component allows you to create customizable forms with various input types and validations.

Features

• Supports multiple input types: text, password, checkboxes, radio, dropdown, date, datetime-local, file input, number, textarea.
• Customizable form title and submit button.
• Validations for required fields, regex patterns, min/max values, and max checked items.
• Displays error messages for validation failures.

Installation

  npm install react-json-form-factory

Usage

import FormBuilder from "react-json-form-factory"

const formFields=[
    {
        "type": "text",
        "name": "firstName",
        "label": "First Name",
        "value": "",
        "placeholder": "Enter your first name",
    },
    {
        "type": "text",
        "name": "lastName",
        "label": "Last Name",
        "value": "",
        "placeholder": "Enter your last name",
    },
    {
        "type": "email",
        "name": "email",
        "label": "Email",
        "value": "",
        "placeholder": "Enter your email",
    }
]

function App() {
  return <FormBuilder fields={formFields} title={{"text": "My Form"}}/>
}

Supported Parameters for Forms

Parameter	Type	Significance
styles	Object	used to change default colors and sizes
gridColumns	String	maximum number of columns in a form
gap	String	Gap in px, rem or other units between each field
fields	List of Objects	List of fields in the order you want to display them
title	Object	Object with the title text and classes to be applied to it
submit_btn	object	Object with the submit button text and classes
onSubmit	Function or String	Function to be called while submitting (fields is passed to it), If a string then a POST request will me made to the URL, and if null then the values will be console logged

Supported Parameters for Field

Parameter	Type	For	Significance
type	String	All	Used to describe the type of input field
name	String	All	Used to describe the name of the input field must be unique
gridSpan	Integer	All	Number of grid cells a field must take
label	String	All	Used to give label to the field
placeholder	String	All	Used to give placeholder to the field
value	String	All	Default value of the field
required	Bool	All	Makes the field required
regex	Regex	All	Custom validations
min	Integer	number, date, datetime-local	Used to give min value to the field
max	Integer	number, date, datetime-local	Used to give max value to the field
step	Integer	number, date, datetime-local	Used to give step size to the field
minChecked	Integer	Checkboxes	Defines the minimum number of checkboxes a user must select
maxChecked	Integer	Checkboxes	Defines the maximum number of checkboxes a user can select
customValidation	Function	All	Custom validations using function. The value is passed to the function and it must return true or false

Authors

• @Siddharth200119