Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine

We're a team of three friends who have been working with forms and Open Source for a decade, and we joined forces together to create something where we can apply all of our experience.

We recently released GolemUI, an Open Source library to generate forms dynamically from JSON definitions, with a typed layer to simplify authoring.

This library has a lot to offer. These are the main characteristics:

1. A JSON engine. The form is governed by a JSON definition that you can store in a DB, version, diff, or generate it with LLMs as a validated JSON.

2. We provide also 28 headless components (and growing) that you can style with CSS variables. We offer APIs so you can drop in Material, Shoelace, or your own components.

3. A DX typed authoring layer on top to write forms programmatically, that generates JSON. So you don't have to write it.

4. The same definition can render the UI components in React, Angular, Vue, Lit, or Vanilla JS.

5. We also have a deterministic MCP that has tools for to validate the model's output, generate JSONs or code, and ensure that the definition returned by the LLM is always valid.

You can find more information here:

Happy to hear any feedback from you and answer any questions!

Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
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How is this a new paradigm?

This idea for JSON -> form has existed for a decade, one example: https://github.com/eclipsesource/jsonforms

Correct,

But there is more, paraphrasing the post itself:

This library has a lot to offer. These are the main characteristics:

1. A JSON engine. The form is governed by a JSON definition that you can store in a DB, version, diff, or generate it with LLMs as a validated JSON.

2. We provide also 28 headless components (and growing) that you can style with CSS variables. We offer APIs so you can drop in Material, Shoelace, or your own components.

3. A DX typed authoring layer on top to write forms programmatically, that generates JSON. So you don't have to write it.

4. The same definition can render the UI components in React, Angular, Vue, Lit, or Vanilla JS.

5. We also have a deterministic MCP that has tools for to validate the model's output, generate JSONs or code, and ensure that the definition returned by the LLM is always valid.

So we see ourselves as the one shop stop for all your form needs.

This is a good batteries included form framework spec, but not a new paradigm. A new paradigm would be something like not filling forms at all and just process user input via an LLM. Or using voice input in a controlled way. Maybe an adaptive single input field that always knows what you need type.