burokrat is a form framework
this software is in beta status. It's missing tests and still needs to be battle tested in a real environment.
I like forms but not enough. Forms is implemented in a way that it forces me to keep some state across my controllers, where I prefer the entire form state to be contained within a single object.
Burokrat takes care of both rendering and validating your forms, just like forms, and it'll let you render parts and pieces selectively. This module wraps the most usefull parts of forms (for now), but offers an entirely different API.
Porting your forms from forms is relatively easy, since burokrat borrows the
widgets and fields from forms, as well as the validation framework.
Fields can be nested objects, making it easier to group parts of your form inside the templates. The names of your form elements reflect the nested object structure, and will be parsed back as objects by node-querystring.
Burokrat only exposes one function, validate. State is maintained inside the form object, and there's no difference between a bound form or a non-bound form.
Example
var Burokrat = require('burokrat');
var Form = Burokrat.create(function(args) {
// you may do some constructor magic here
// as constructor values are passed to this
// function...
this.fields = {
test: {
type: 'text',
required: false,
label: 'Screen name',
validators: [
function(f, field, next) {
return next('not a thing');
}]
},
profile: {
description: {
type: 'textarea',
required: false,
placeholder: 'lorem ipsum sit amet',
label: 'Something about yourself',
},
culture: {
type: 'select',
options: ['nl-NL', 'en-EN'],
value: 'nl-NL',
required: true,
label: 'Select language',
validators: []
},
password: {
type: 'password',
required: true,
value: args.password,
label: 'Password',
placeholder: '***',
validators: []
}
}
};
});
var f = new Form({ password: '!@##' });
f.validate(function(err, form){
if( form.isValid ){
// yay
}
console.log(form.errors);
// gives: { test: 'not a thing', profile: { description: 'This field is required.' }}
console.log(f.errors);
// same thing. state is maintained inside the object
});Propably some. Main problem: you cannot have form field named type at the
moment. This will propably be adressed some day.
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