Forms

[jackcmeyer]

🚀 Feature Proposal

Add forms to the component library.

Forms should have:

• form builder: outputs a jsonschema, including validation and field types
• auto building forms from a jsonschema
• auto validating on predefined input types; function on custom input types

Motivation

Forms are used to enter information.

Example

Creating a new patient.

Relevant Links

• (formik)[https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=formik@1.5.8]

[ben-m-j-taylor]

Hi, I'd be interested in picking this issue up!

I'm just wondering if it might be worth separating the Form and FormBuilder components into their respective issues? As they seem like two very distinct components and chunks of work :)

If not I’m perfectly happy to do both as part of this issue :)

[matteovivona]

@irvelervel what do you think?

[irvelervel]

Hello everyone. I already did a pretty significant amount of work tooling a form generator system in the past, complete with autobuilding-from-schema features; the only problem is that I built it upon redux-form (https://github.com/redux-form/redux-form) which now seems to be much less relevant than it was at the time. Me and the rest of the core team agree that formik (https://github.com/jaredpalmer/formik) is a strong base to build upon right now.
@B-Taylor123 I didn't intended those (the form and the formbuilder) as two separate components :) once the form-generator system is build up, you can pass a configuration to it a that renders a form which outputs the values selected as a valid json schema; then, this json schema could be passed again to our form-generation system to create the desired form.

[ben-m-j-taylor]

Ahhh, thanks for clearing that up @irvelervel :) I’d still like to pick this task up if that’s cool with everyone?

[irvelervel]

@B-Taylor123 really sorry for the late response. I apologize but I realized I want to take some time to inspect my old code and check all the features implemented at the time in order to have a clearer picture of the code portions we need to write from scratch. We are probably going to have an open talk about this: we'll be glad if you can be a part of it. Stay tuned ;)