Styled React Forms

Styled React Forms is a library for creating and styling React forms using Styled React css-in-js styling. Form Validation can be performed on keystroke, blur, dirty, and submit. JSON-Schema is used for validation which provides quick, secure, and customizable inputs and forms, for more information see here and Styled React Form section on validation

Getting Started

npm install @cbryant24/styled-react-forms

To get started import the Form component.

import Form from '@cbryant24/styled-react-forms';

Props

The <Form /> component takes the following props: form, inputs, validate, onSubmit, buttons

Form Prop

The form props is an object used to create the form using the properties data and style

Prop	Type	Description
data	object	properties name and cb

data properties

Prop	Type	Description
name	string	unique name of the input for use in the name attribute on the input
cb	function	function to be invoked after a success form submission.

const form = {
  data: {
    name: 'login' String[required],
    cb: setLogin Function[optional]
  }
};

Style Prop

The style property can be used to style the form element using camel case css values or if using a theme and ThemeProvider with Styled React library a string or array of strings representing the corresponding named theme property for styling.

const form = {
  ...
  style: {
    display: 'flex',
    height: '100%',
    justifyContent: 'space-evenly',
    flexDirection: 'column',
    backgroundColor: 'gray.8',
    border: '1px solid black',
    width: [1], // if using theming
    padding: '4rem',
    zIndex: 20,
    themeStyle: 'marginSmall' // if using theming
  }
}

Inputs Prop

The inputs property takes an array of objects that describe each input the form will display. Each input object takes the properties data, fieldStyle, and inputStyle

inputs: data

The data property contains the properties type, name, label, placeholder, and required properites

Prop	Type	Description
type	string	type of input to display i.e. email, input, select, textarea
name	string	unique name of the input for use in the name attribute on the input
label	string	a string value used for the label element with the input
placeholder	string	used for the placeholder text within the input
required	boolean	true for field is required and validation passed to be submitted

const inputs = [
  {
    data: {
      type: 'email' String,
      name: 'user-email' String[required],
      label: 'Email' String,
      placeholder: 'Please Enter Email' String,
      required: true Boolean
    }
    ...
  }
]

FieldStyle Prop

The fieldStyle property can be used to style the field container that holds the input element and input error messages by using camel case css values or if using a theme and ThemeProvider with Styled React library a string or array of strings representing the corresponding theme property name

const inputs = [
  {
    ...
    fieldStyle: {
      width: 'inputWidth', // if using theme
      height: '15%',
      justifyContent: 'space-between',
      flexDirection: 'column',
      themeStyle: 'marginSmall' // if using theming
    }
  }
]

InputStyle Prop

The inputStyle property can be used to style the input located in the fieldStyle container by using camel case css values or if using a theme and ThemeProvider with Styled React library a string or array of strings representing the corresponding theme property name

const inputs = [
  {
    ...
    inputStyle: {
      color: 'blue',
      fontSize: '1.8em',
      minWidth: '100%'
    }
  }
]
/// if using theming
const inputs = [
  {
    ...
    inputStyle: {
      themeStyle: 'inputNormal'
    }
  }
]

Buttons Prop

The buttons property taks an array of objects that describe each button the form will display. Each button object takes the properties text, type, cb, style

Prop	Type	Description
text	string	text to be displayed in the button
type	string	type of button i.e. submit, cancel
cb	function	invoked when the button is clicked
style	object	css camelcase properites for button style
disabledStyles	object	css camelcase properites for submit button when disabled

The submit button is set to disabled if using form validation with the default disabled color style set to `grey`.
To style the disabled state pass the disabled styles in the `disabledStyles` property

const buttons = [
  {
    text: 'Submit',
    type: 'submit',
    cb: onSubmit,
    style: 'squareButton' // if using theming
    disabledStyle: {
      color: 'gray',
      cursor: 'default',
      padding: '10px 20px'
    }
  }
];

onSubmit Prop

The onSubmit prop takes a function that will be invoked when the form is submitted. The onSubmit function will receive both the current input value and the javascript event object. Any validation provided will be checked before submission if there are any errors in validation the form submission submit button will be disabled.

Validate Peop

See the section About Validation

Validation

Styled React forms provides form validation using JSON schema validation see ajv for more detailed info

Getting Started

Validation for each input can be done on blur, change, and form submission.

Validation for each input and submission can be done using predefined checks see list below for validation options Validation can be done by passing an object to the prop validate with the properties title, description, inputs, inputErrorMessages, submit, and submitErrorMessages.

Prop	Type	Description
title	string	form name defined in the <Form /> component
description	string	description of the form purpose/use
inputs	array	array of objects representing the input to perform validation check
inputErrorMessages	object	error message to be displayed for corresponding input
submit	array	inputs to validate when the form is submitted
submitErrorMessages	object	error message to be displayed for corresponding input field on submission

inputs: name blur change

The inputs property for validation takes an array of objects representing each input to perfrom validation for change or blur see list below for validation options. Name must refer to the name used in the inputs property for form definition see here

const validate = {
    ...
    inputs: [
      {
        name: 'email',
        blur: 'emptyOrEmail',
        change: 'emptyOrSafeString'
      },
    ]
    ...
}

inputErrorMessages

Is an object that has the corresponding property name of the input name field for inputs in the form definition see above with a string error message do be displayed when error validation fails in the specified field

const validate = {
  ...
  inputErrorMessages: {
    email: 'Email should be in email format'
  },
  ...
}

submit

Submit takes an array representing the inputs to validate when the form is submitted

Prop	Type	Description
name	string	name of the input to validate corresponds to the input defined in the form definiton array see above
validate	string	string name of validation to perform on form submission see here for names

const validate = {
  ...
  submit: [
    {
      name: 'email',
      validate: 'safeString'
    }
  ]
  ...
}

Match

To validate for two fields that must match on submission use the property match in the validate object in the submit array with the name of the field to match with

const validate = {
  ...
  submit: [
    {
      name: 'password',
      validate: 'safeString',
    },
    {
      name: 'confirm password',
      match: 'password'
    }
  ]
  ...
}

Multiple Validations

For submit validating of multiple criteria use an array of validations strings. Use the property validationType to specify the type of multiple validation with one of the types not, oneOf, anyOf, allOf

Not

not: as long as the value does not pass all of the supplied validation the input value is valid

const validation = {
  ...
  submit: {

    name: 'password',
    validationType: 'not',
    validate: [
      'safeStringSpaces',
      'number'
    ]
  }
  ...
}

valid: 'Hello', 'World'
invalid: '1', 'Hello World'

OneOf

oneOf: as long as the value passes exactly one of the supplied validation the input value is valid

const validation = {
  ...
  submit: {
    name: 'password',
    validationType: 'oneOf',
    validate: [
      'safeString',
      'number'
    ]
  }
  ...
}

valid: 'Hello', 'World', 8
invalid: 'Hello1', 'Hello8World'

AnyOf

anyOf: as long as the value passes any of the supplied validations the input value is valid - this is the default if none is provided

const validation = {
  ...
  submit: {
    name: 'password',
    validationType: 'allof',
    validate: [
      'safeStringSpaces',
      'number'
    ]
  }
  ...
}

valid:: 'Hello World', 'World 8', 'hello-8-world'
invalid: 'Hello/World', 'hello;@ world'

AllOf

allOf: as long as the value passes all of the supplied validations the input vaule is valid

const validation = {
  ...
  submit: {
    name: 'password',
    validationType: 'allOf',
    validate: [
      'safeStringSpaces',
      'number'
    ]
  }
  ...
}

valid:: 'Hello8World', 'World 8', 'hello-8-world'
invalid: 'Hello World', 'hello;@ world', 'Hello'

submitErrorMessages

Takes an object that has the corresponding property name of the submit name value see above with a string error message do be displayed when error validation fails for that specific field

const validate = {
  ...
  submitErrorMessages: {
    email: 'Email should be in email format'
  },
  ...
}

Sample Schema

const scheme = {
  title: 'signup',
  description: 'User Signin',
  inputs: [
    {
      name: 'email',
      blur: 'emptyOrEmail',
      change: 'emptyOrSafeString'
    },
    {
      name: 'password',
      blur: 'emptyOrSafeString',
      change: 'emptyOrSafeString'
    }
  ],
  inputErrorMessages: {
    email: 'Email should be in email format',
    password:
      'Password should only contain letters, numbers, and ! @ # $ % characters'
  },
  submit: [
    {
      name: 'email',
      validate: 'safeString'
    },
    {
      name: 'password',
      validate: 'safeString'
    }
  ],
  submitErrorMessages: {
    email: 'There was an error in the email field',
    password: 'There was an error in the password field'
  }
};

Validation Options

Empty or Safe String With Spaces

name: emptyOrSafeStringSpaces
Description: Allows empty string, spaces, letters, numbers, and the following characters: @*!.$
Matches: '', Kanye West, a$ap Rocky, her.
Non-Matches: /Carl, 'john', George ; Michael

Empty or Safe String

name: emptyOrSafeString
Description: Allows empty string, letters, numbers, and the following characters: @*!.$
Matches: '', Kanye, a$ap, her.
Non-Matches: /Carl, 'john', Kanye West

Safe String

name: safeString
Description: Allows letters, numbers, and the following characters: @*!.$
Matches: Kanye, a$ap, her.
Non-Matches: /Carl, 'john', Kanye West

Safe String With Spaces

name: safeStringSpaces
Description: Allows spaces, letters, numbers, and the following characters: @*!.$
Matches: Kanye, a$ap, her.
Non-Matches: '/Carl', 'john', 'Kanye West'

Match

See Match

Default Validations

maxLength: 128
minLength: 1 (on form submit)