react-peasy-form

Peasy Form

npm install react-peasy-form

<Form />

The base form component and context provider for all enclosed form fields.

<Form
    defaults={{ 
        title: 'hello', 
        name: { first: 'John', last: 'Doe'  } 
    }}
    onSubmit={values => console.log(values)}
>
    <div>
        <h2>Inputs</h2>

        <Input 
            name="title" 
            transform={v => v.toUpperCase()}
            type="text" 
        />

        <Input 
            name="name.first" 
            type="text" 
            validate={v => {
                if (v === 'bob') {
                    const err = (
                        <span className="error">
                            No Bobs allowed!
                        </span>
                    )

                    return [err]
                }

                return true
            }}
        />

        <Input name="name.last" type="text" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <h2>Values</h2>
        <ul>
            <li><Value name="title" /></li>
            <li>
                <Value 
                    name={['name.first', 'name.last']}
                    render={([firstName, lastName]) => {
                        return (
                            <span>
                                <strong>Name:</strong>
                                {firstName} {lastName}
                            </span>
                        )
                    }} 
                />
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>

    <div>
        <h2>Errors</h2>
        <Error name="name.first" />
    </div>

    <Status render={status => {
        const disabled = status === FormStatus.VALIDATING || 
            status == FormStatus.INVALID
        return (
            <button disabled={disabled} type="submit">Submit</button>
        )
    }} />
</Form>

Props

defaults?: { [key: string]: any }

Default form values in the form of key/value pairs where the key is a form field name, and the value is the form field value. Values in nested objects can be accessed through dot notation.

validateOn?: 'change' | 'blur' | 'submit'

The default setting describing when to trigger field validation. This can be overridden on a per-field basis

validationStrategy?: (value: any, validation: any) => true | Array<string | Error | JSX.Element>

Applies a field validation to a field value. This can be used to support various third party validation libraries.

onSubmit(values: { [key: string]: any }): void

Executed when the form is submitted. onSubmit gets passed an object mapping field names to transformed field values. Nested values are supported through dot notation.

preValidate?(): void

Executed before a form's onSubmit validation occurs.

onError?(errors: { [key: string]: Array<string | Error | JSX.Element> }): void

Executed when a form's onSubmit validation fails

Form Fields

Supported Input Fields

• <Input />
• <Select />
• <Textarea />

Props

Each field supports all the props of the field it is shadowing, plus:

name: string

The key associated with a form field's value. Supports nested objects through dot notation.

transform?: (value: any) => any

Used to transform a fields before validation occurs. The transformed value is returned by onSubmit

validate?: any

A function used to validate a field's value. The function signature when using the default validation strategy is (value: any) => true | Array<string | Error | JSX.Element>

validateOn?: 'submit' | 'blur' | 'change'

Override the form's default validateOn

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<Value />

Outputs the transformed value of a form field.

Props

name: string | string[]

The field name or names to render

render?: (value: any | any[], status: FormStatus | FormStatus[]) => JSX.Element

enum FormStatus {
  PRISTINE,
  DIRTY,
  INVALID,
}

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<Status />

Outputs the status of the form or a specific field.

Props

name?: string

If defined, only this field's status will be passed to render

render: (status: FormStatus) => JSX.Element

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<Err />

Outputs any errors associated with a field.

Props

name: string

The desired field's name

render?: (errors: Array<string | Error | JSX.Element>) => JSX.Element

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TODO:

• Add live examples