react-form-generator
Dev tools
form generator
SHOW HN2015
107points
27comments
#230of 2,565 in 2015
Top 9%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters find the idea useful and the approach promising
From 3 comments
Whoa, this is pretty cool. People have been trying to do this for ages. If they've been analyzing how people code, they have some valuable data to develop from. I hope they make…
rathereasy on HNI just started learning React and it's great how libraries like these are almost making the construction of front-end web components into a DSL via JSON schemas.
sudo_bang_bang on HNThis is pretty amazing. Is it all auto-recursive?
krrishd on HN
Objections
JSON Schema lacks form attributes like property order
From 1 comment
I have some experience in this. Problem is, JSON Schema doesn't give you some attributes like order of properties for building the form. What makes sense is extending JSON Schema…
msoad on HN
Hard cases like recursion and oneOf need solving
From 1 comment
I have some experience in this. Problem is, JSON Schema doesn't give you some attributes like order of properties for building the form. What makes sense is extending JSON Schema…
msoad on HN
Requests
Support for custom input widgets
From 1 comment
Was working on a similar project that I never managed to finish. I think this is a really useful tool. One thing missing is custom input widgets.
tootie on HN
Unit tests
From 1 comment
Cool. Unit tests would be nice.
r-cid on HN
Questions
How are dates handled?
From 1 comment
Maybe I am missing something but how are they dealing with dates?
PretzelFisch on HN
Is it auto-recursive?
From 1 comment
This is pretty amazing. Is it all auto-recursive?
krrishd on HN
Alternatives named
json-editor
From 2 comments
I have some experience in this. Problem is, JSON Schema doesn't give you some attributes like order of properties for building the form. What makes sense is extending JSON Schema…
msoad on HNIt's pretty easy to extend JSON Schema with all sorts of other metadata about how a UI should represent the data, or how automated tools should interact with records, making your…
btown on HN
tcomb-form
From 2 comments
See also tcomb-form [1] with it's tcomb-json-schema plugin [2]. We're currently using react-forms with a custom json-schema to react-forms schema conversion. [1]…
laurencerowe on HNtcomb-form is the most elegant solution I've seen to this problem in React. Really nice to use.
nutate on HN
formsy-react
From 1 comment
Also https://github.com/christianalfoni/formsy-react
hoodoof on HN
aldeed:autoform (Meteor)
From 1 comment
Meteor js had this with the aldeed:autoform package ages ago
justaaron on HN