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There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Re: There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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So now there are 201 form builders ..... ? All jokes aside (given that I suck as a web-dev and still resort to plain vanilla html/css/js to build front ends for my webapps) what would have been great to see in your post was a list of problems with the 200 form builders - or atleast top N common anti-patterns amongst those and your understanding of how they came be and your philosophy and solution for tackling those.…

That's a fair comment. I'll try to do that for a future blog post. I could probably write a detailed article for each particular feature. That would take some time. Thanks for the feedback and comment.

No worries - to be fair to you - You did try to call out some at a very high level in the intro. I am a visual person so a demo of the anti pattern would have been great (for me). By the I know this does not help your actual work so feel free to ignore this. Your demos look great btw and you should prioritize getting paying customers over random "haters" on the net :)

Re: There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I started writing code for this back in 2017, and I discovered a lot of issues with the number input back in 2019 so I never revisited it. So I'm glad certain issues have been resolved, but there are still others. I could probably write an article just about why the number input is terrible.

> I could probably write an article just about why the number input is terrible. And, with as many people are saying outright "don't use numeric inputs" I would very much want to understand what issues you encountered, when, and, on what platform. Otherwise it sorta feels like FUD in 2022 to push against numeric inputs without specifying the actual issues. In other words, please do write an article. Although I'm skep…

Hey I just wrote a blog post of why the number input is terrible;

https://blog.keenforms.com/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst...

I also shared it on hacker news. I hope this helps.

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