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formik-semantic-ui

Wrappers for formik that simplify usage with semantic-ui-react.

Benefits:

  • No need to manage form state
  • handles onChange for you
  • Normalize all input events to provide a value (Ex: value: true for Checkbox instead of checked
  • Easily handle showing validation messages from client or server
  • REDUCES BOILERPLATE

Install: npm i formik-semantic-ui

Ex:

<Form initialValues={{emailAddress:""}} onSubmit={(values, formikApi) => {
  api.save(values);
  formikApi.setFieldError('emailAdress', 'already in use')
}}>
  <Input label="Email" name="emailAddress" />

  <Button.Submit>Submit</Button.Submit>
  <Button.Reset>Cancel</Button.Reset>
</Form>

Demo:

Components

Input Components

  • Input
  • Dropdown
    • options can be passed to component directly or through inputProps
  • Checkbox
  • TextArea

props:

Property Required Default Desc
name required formik property key
checks touched, errors, and values
id optional field_input_${count} used to override default id put on component and associated via label
label optional undefined displays label on <Form.Field>
inputProps optional {} props to be passed to matching Semantic-UI component.
Ex: {type:"password"} on <Input />
fieldProps optional {} props passed to <Form.Field />
errorComponent optional span with class sui-error-message Use a component that receive a message prop (can be used also as a render prop)
inputRef optional ref function to get handle to dom element (does not work on DropDown)
fast optional false whether to use formik's FastField (beneficial for large forms)

Produce Semantic-UI:

<Form.Field error={checks errors}>
  <label />
  <CONNECTED_FORMIK_COMPONENT /> /* Example <Input /> */
  <span className="sui-error-message">Some error message</span>
</Form.Field>

Form Helpers

<Form />

  • Usage
    • Simple Usage - Components as children
    • Enhanced Usage - "Render Prop" similar to default Formik "Render Prop"
      • render={formikProps => <Form />}
      • function as a child
  • Automatically binds Formik handleSubmit for Semantic UI Form onSubmit
  • Automatically binds Formik isSubmitting for Semantic UI Form loading
  • ignoreLoading - if you wish to disconnect the Forms loading prop from isSubmitting
  • Accepts all <Formik /> props EXCEPT component
  • Accepts the following props from Semantic UI <Form />
    • className
    • inverted
    • size

Ex:

<Form
  {...props}
  onSubmit={handleSubmit}
  loading={!props.ignoreLoading && isSubmitting}
/>

<Form.Children /> - alias for <React.Fragment> to better show intent when using render prop

Buttons

  • Button - <Button {...props} type="button" />
  • Button.Submit - <Button primary {...props} type="submit" />
  • Button.Reset - <Button basic {...props} type="button" onClick={handleReset} />

Creating Custom Components

TODO: Create a better factory

Current:

Schema Driven

Basics

  • Object keys map to component name prop
  • Defaults to Input if type is unknown
  • Unknown types pass their type to Input type={type}
  • You can provide an initial value
  • Very basic width via fieldProps

TODO:

  • Document this better
  • Handle grouping

Usage:

<Form
  onSubmit={this._handleSubmit}
  schema={{
    emailAddress: {
      label: 'Email Address',
      type: 'text',
      value: '[email protected]',
    },
    ssn: {
      label: 'SSN',
      type: 'password',
      fieldProps: {
        width: 8,
      },
    },
    notes: {
      label: 'Notes',
      type: 'textarea',
      inputProps: {
        rows: '6',
      },
    },
    likes: {
      label: 'Favorite Food',
      type: 'dropdown',
      options: [
        {text: 'Pizza', value: 'pizza'},
        {text: 'I am wrong', value: 'im-wrong'},
      ],
    },
    agree: {
      label: 'I Agree',
      type: 'checkbox',
    },
  }}
>
  <Button.Submit>Submit</Button.Submit>
  <Button.Reset>Cancel</Button.Reset>
</Form>