React-Auto-FormGenerator

A form generator for React. If you don't want to write lot of forms then use this component to generate forms by providing array of fields and it will generate forms from it.

See react-auto-formgenerator for live storybook.

Installation and usage

The easiest way to react-auto-formgenerator is to install it from npm and build it into your app with Webpack.

npm install react-auto-formgenerator

Then use if in your app:

With React Component

import { Card, CardBody, CardHeader } from 'reactstrap';
import { FormGenerator } from 'react-auto-formgenerator';

function App() {

  const fields = {
    username: {
      type: 'text',
      label: 'Username',
      name: 'username',
      col: 6,
      className: 'userinput'
    },
    email: {
      type: 'email',
      label: 'Email',
      name: 'email',
      col: 6
    },
    password: {
      type: 'password',
      label: 'Password',
      name: 'password',
      col: 6
    },
    role: {
      type: 'advanceSelect',
      label: 'Role',
      name: 'role',
      options: [
        {
          value: 'admin',
          label: 'Admin'
        },
        {
          value: 'customer',
          label: 'Customer'
        }
      ],
      col: 6
    },
    product: {
      type: 'advanceSelect',
      label: 'Product',
      name: 'product',
      target: 'http://localhost:5000/products',
      optionValue: 'id',
      optionLabel: 'name',
      multi: false,
      col: 6
    },
    file: {
      type: 'file',
      label: 'Image',
      name: 'file',
      col: 6
    },
    active: {
      type: 'switch',
      label: 'Active',
      name: 'active'
    },
    educationSection: {
    label: 'Education',
    type: 'section',
    name: 'educationSection',
    show: false,
    fields: {
      school: {
        type: 'text',
        label: 'Name of School/College',
        name: 'school',
        col: 12
      }
    }
  }
  }

  return (
    <div className='row w-100 vh-90 pt-5'>
      <div className='col-10 mx-auto'>
        <Card>
          <CardHeader>
            <strong>Add User</strong>
          </CardHeader>
          <CardBody>
            <FormGenerator 
              fields={fields}
              idKey='_id'
              apiUrl='http://localhost:5000' 
              entity='users'
              showToast={true}
              submitCb={data => console.log('form submitted', data)}
            />
          </CardBody>
        </Card>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

Schema for sections, these sections act as collapsible elements which render fields.

export const sections = {
  educationSection: {
    label: 'Education',
    type: 'section',
    name: 'educationSection',
    show: false,
    fields: {
      school: {
        type: 'text',
        label: 'Name of School/College',
        name: 'school',
        col: 12
      }
      ...
    }
  }
}

Schema for dynamic fields, these fields are added inside sections for better UI.

export const dynamicFields = {
  groupPrices: {
    label: 'Group Prices',
    type: 'repeater',
    name: 'groupPrices',
    newBtnLabel: 'Add Group Price',
    fields: {
      group: {
        type: 'advanceSelect',
        placeholder: 'Group',
        name: 'group',
        options: [
          {
            value: 'all',
            label: 'All groups'
          },
          {
            value: 'guest',
            label: 'Guest'
          }
        ],
        col: 4,
      },
      qty: {
        type: 'number',
        placeholder: 'Qty',
        name: 'qty',
        col: 4
      },
      discount: {
        type: 'number',
        placeholder: 'Discount',
        name: 'discount',
        col: 3
      }
    }
  }
}

Props

Common props you may want to specify include:

• idKey - id key name which is used in your database, for MongoDB it is generally _id
• apiUrl - your base api url
• fields - object of fields which will generate form
• entity - endpoint entity
• targetId - record id for edit case
• submitCb - callback function which will trigger after success submit of form
• showToast - to display default toast
• formClassName - class for form
• btnClassName - class for form button

Note

This component handles server side errors as well, but errors should be in this format:

{
  "errors": {
    "email": "Invalid email",
    "username": "This field is required",
    "password": "Password should be between 4-20 characters",
    ...
  }
}

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