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FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by user3939382 »

Jarvy wrote: post #18

I love these sorts of frameworks! Makes doing forms a lot nicer, especially the live validation. I feel like the next evolution is automatically generating a whole form from selecting a schema in an OpenAPI spec. In a lot of specs, the type (string, email, phone, int, etc) is present along with any constraints (min/max length). Depending on the language/OpenAPI generator, it even preserves field order. It could massi…

Here's a Clojure strategy optimized for streamlining this exact type of development https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-n...

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by meetups323 »

juddlyon wrote: post #16

The product and the website are really slick, but there is nothing about who made this other than "FormKit, Inc." in the footer. Is this a group, an individual, a subsidiary, or what?

GH contributions primarily from three people, all affiliated with https://www.wearebraid.com/home. Seems to be some web dev consultancy that has open sourced part of their toolchain.

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by divan »

Jarvy wrote: post #18

I love these sorts of frameworks! Makes doing forms a lot nicer, especially the live validation. I feel like the next evolution is automatically generating a whole form from selecting a schema in an OpenAPI spec. In a lot of specs, the type (string, email, phone, int, etc) is present along with any constraints (min/max length). Depending on the language/OpenAPI generator, it even preserves field order. It could massi…

As for me, forms are the single most important aspect of many web apps. Including critical ones for the society (banking, tickets, taxes, etc). Large part of my frustration with the state of web stems from how terrible experience with (creating and using) forms is.

Web is almost 30 years old by now, and the announce of a way to make forms relatively easily, still generates an excitement.

I mean, how many more years webdev community needs to realize that typesetting engine from 80s is not a good option for making modern robust UI apps? Technology for making hyperlinked web-pages is a terrible foundation for apps.

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by DJBunnies »

ramraj07 wrote: post #20
pmx wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be interested in seeing your code for this. I'm 99% certain it's something in your code rather than in Vue itself. I've done recursive nesting myself plenty of times and as long as you limit the depth so it doesn't go infinite you're fine.

Absolutely sure I’m doing something wrong but why would vue allow any case that hangs the entire tab? I’ve never seen that in any website ever!

Are you expecting vue to prevent you from doing something wrong?

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by andrew_braid »

juddlyon wrote: post #16

The product and the website are really slick, but there is nothing about who made this other than "FormKit, Inc." in the footer. Is this a group, an individual, a subsidiary, or what?

One of the maintainers here — new business created by the team that made Vue Formulate (https://vueformulate.com/). FormKit is its own entity because its goals are larger than being a sub-product of a client-service agency.

Primary author is Justin Schroeder - https://twitter.com/jpschroeder

I help :) (Andrew Boyd) - https://twitter.com/0xBOYD

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by ROARosen »

juddlyon wrote: post #16

The product and the website are really slick, but there is nothing about who made this other than "FormKit, Inc." in the footer. Is this a group, an individual, a subsidiary, or what?

FormKit is a "descendant" of VueFormulate[1] you'll find more information there. here's the co-founder's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpschroeder

[1]https://vueformulate.com/

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by ramraj07 »

DJBunnies wrote: post #24
ramraj07 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely sure I’m doing something wrong but why would vue allow any case that hangs the entire tab? I’ve never seen that in any website ever!

Are you expecting vue to prevent you from doing something wrong?

Imagine if you write a java program and you execute it to get BSOD on windows, is that reasonable?

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by buremba »

bpicolo wrote: post #17
msoad wrote: post #15

Why people keep inventing new schema formats? JSON Schema is not perfect but you can extend it to achieve all of what's in this schema format.

Well, they're not validating JSON. Forms are text value fields that aren't always sent as JSON later, or necessarily sent over the wire at all. They definitely are using their DSL for things far out of the scope of JSON schema. The builtin debouncing is pretty neat: https://formkit.com/essentials/validation#debounce-milli Forms in UI code also tend to have a bunch of business-logic type validation (e.g. "there's alre…

Well, they produce JSON though. I understand that there is much more context related to the user interface but you can extend JSON Schema to be able to tie more information to it. It's an incredibly flexible & collaborative way to define the schemas. The backend people are also familiar with it and can validate the data & collaborate with frontend people over a JSON Schema probably much easier compared to a frontend libraries DSL.

For example; React has a library to generate forms via JSON Schema and you can use uiSchema feature for the use-case that you mentioned: https://react-jsonschema-form.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-r...

Re: FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

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Post by sgt »

aabhay wrote: post #14
skybrian wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe try console logging?

But what if the component is a recursively nested logging tool?

They might even become part of the next YC batch. A recursively nested logging platform - quite a novel idea. Possibly even possible to patent.
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