useControlledForm

Easily manage your React forms with 'use-managed-form', a custom hook that simplifies state handling and validations for creating interactive and dynamic forms.

Installation

Install the package via npm:

npm install use-managed-form

Or using bun:

bun add use-managed-form

Or using yarn:

yarn add use-managed-form

Usage

First, import the hook:

import useForm from 'use-managed-form'

Initialize Your Form

Define your initial state for the form fields:

const initialFormState = {
  email: '',
  password: ''
}

Then, initialize the hook:

const { form, onChange } = useForm(initialFormState)

Key Features and Returned Object

The useForm hook provides the following:

• <inputKey>: the value of the input field with the corresponding key in the initial state object.
• form: an object with the following properties:
  • <inputKey>:
    • id: the input key.
    • value: the current value of the input.
    • error: the current validation error associated to the input.
  • reset: a function that resets all form fields to their initial values and clears all validation errors.
  • clearErrors: a function that clears all validation errors without resetting the field values.
  • isValid: a function that returns a boolean value indicating whether there are any validation errors or not.
• onChange(e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement | HTMLTextAreaElement | HTMLSelectElement>): an event handler that updates the value of a form field when the user interacts with it.
• setValue(key, value): Manually update a specific input value.
• setError(key, error): Attach an error message to an input.
• setEntries(entries): Manually update all input values, where entries should be of the same shape as the initial state object.

Example Implementation

import React from 'react'
import useForm from 'use-managed-form'

const MyForm = () => {
  const { form, onChange, setError } = useForm({
    email: '',
    password: ''
  })
  const submitAction = () => {
    console.log('After validation')
    // after submit action
    form.reset()
  }
  const handleSubmit = (event) => {
    event.preventDefault()
    form.clearErrors()
    if (!form.email.value) setError(form.email.id, 'Email is required')
    if (!form.password.value) setError(form.password.id, 'Password is required')
    if (!form.isValid()) {
      console.log('Please fix all the errors')
      return
    }
    submitAction()
  }

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      <div>
        <label>Email</label>
        <input
          type='email'
          name='email'
          value={form.email.value}
          onChange={onChange}
        />
        <p>{form.email.error}</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label>Password</label>
        <input
          type='password'
          name='password'
          value={form.password.value}
          onChange={onChange}
        />
        <p>{form.password.error}</p>
      </div>
      <button type='submit'>Submit</button>
      <button type='button' onClick={form.reset}>
        Reset
      </button>
    </form>
  )
}

export default MyForm

You could also extract each input value individually:

const { email, password, form, onChange } = useForm({
  email: '',
  password: ''
})

Working with Checkboxes or Radio Buttons

For boolean values (e.g., checkboxes):

const { form, onChange } = useForm({
  rememberMe: false
})

;<input
  type='checkbox'
  name='rememberMe'
  checked={form.rememberMe.value}
  onChange={onChange}
/>

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Check out the source code on GitHub. Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.

This package is also available on npm.