React JSON Schema Form Builder

Enhanced React JSON Schema Form Builder

This is an enhanced version of the React JSON Schema Form Builder, built on top of @ginkgo-bioworks/react-json-schema-form-builder with additional powerful features and improvements.

The FormBuilder component allows users to visually configure JSON Schema encoded forms through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Perfect for building applications that enable users to create and distribute their own surveys, forms, and data collection tools.

✨ New Features & Enhancements

This enhanced version includes all the original functionality plus these exciting new features:

• 🔄 Field Save Functionality: Save form field configurations
• 📝 Rich Description Editor: Advanced text editor for field descriptions with formatting support
• 💡 Description Tooltips: Hover tooltips that display field descriptions for better user experience
• 🏷️ Auto-naming: Automatic generation of section object names and element object names by camel-casing display names
• ⚡ Enhanced UX: Improved user interface and workflow optimizations

Key Features

• Visual Form Building: Drag, drop, and edit form elements with ease
• JSON Schema Compliance: Generate valid JSON Schema forms
• Customizable Components: Incorporate custom form elements and inputs
• Real-time Preview: Live code representation of your form as you build
• Extensible Architecture: Easy to extend with novel form elements

Quickstart

npm i --save rjsf-builder

Import the enhanced form builder as a React component in your Node project:

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react';

import {FormBuilder} from 'rjsf-builder';

class Example extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      schema: '',
      uischema: ''
    };
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <FormBuilder
        schema={this.state.schema}
        uischema={this.state.uischema}
        onChange={(newSchema: string, newUiSchema: string) => {
          this.setState({
            schema: newSchema,
            uischema: newUiSchema
          })
        }}
        onSave={(fieldData: any, newSchema: string, newUiSchema: string) => {
          this.setState({
            schema: newSchema,
            uischema: newUiSchema
          })
        }}
      />
    );
  }
}

Enhanced Features in Detail

🔄 Field Save Functionality

Save your configured form fields across different forms, improving productivity and consistency.

📝 Rich Description Editor

Create detailed, formatted descriptions for your form fields using an advanced text editor with rich formatting capabilities.

💡 Description Tooltips

Improve user experience with helpful tooltips that display field descriptions when users hover over form elements.

🏷️ Smart Auto-naming

Automatically generate clean, consistent object names for sections and elements by converting display names to camelCase format.

Built On

This enhanced version is built on top of the excellent @ginkgo-bioworks/react-json-schema-form-builder and extends its functionality with additional features and improvements.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.

License

Licensed Apache 2.0. Built upon @ginkgo-bioworks/react-json-schema-form-builder - Copyright 2020-2023 Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.