hooks-form-validation

Form Validation With hooks made easy

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development . You want to write simple and maintainable form validations. As part of this goal, you want your validations to be simple yet accomadate your specifc needs. Be it in React Web or React Native.

Prerequisites

Basic Understanding of Hooks

Install

npm install --save hooks-form-validation

Usage

import React, {useState } from 'react'

import {validateName,
  validateEmail,
  validatePassword,
  validateConfirmPassword} from 'hooks-form-validation'

Arguments

validateName

This takes 4 argument
State => which will hold the value of the input field
fieldName => This is the name of the field e.g ' First Name , Last Name'
setNameError => Funcction to update the error message
min=> This is the minimum number of characters the name should have
max => This is the maximum number of characters the name should have

validateName(Name, "fieldName" SetNameError , Min , Max)

validateEmail

This takes two argument
State => This hold the value of the email input field
setEmailError => function to update the error message of the email

    validateEmail(email, setEmailError)

validatePassword

This takes two argument
State => Holds the value of the password field
SetPasswordError Function to update the error message of the password
min => (Optional=8) minimum characters of a password
max => (optional =32) maximum characters of a password

validatePassword(password, setPasswordError)
or 
validatePassword(password , setPasswordError , 10,40)
// minimum password should be 10 and maximum should be 40

validateConfirmPassword

This takes three argument
firstPassword => hold the value of the first password
SecondPassword => holds the value of the password to be confirm
setConfirmPasswordError => function to update the error message of the confirm password
validateConfirmPassword(password , confirmPassword , setConfirmPasswordError)

Set Up State

Since the value of your input field will be pointing to your state
State Errors will hold the errors of each field when validated

const [email, setEmail] = useState()
  const [password, setPassword] = useState()
  const [confirmPassword, setConfirmPassword] = useState()
  const [Name, setName] = useState()

  // State Errors

  const [emailError, setEmailError] = useState()
  const [passwordError, setPasswordError] = useState()
  const [nameError, setNameError] = useState()
  const [confirmpasswordError, setConfirmpasswordError] = useState()

Setting Up Form

<form method='POST' onSubmit={submit} noValidate>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='name'>Name</label>
        <input
          type='text'
          name='Name'
          id=''
          value={Name}
          onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
        />
      
      </div>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='password'>password</label>
        <input
          type='password'
          name='password'
          id=''
          value={password}
          onChange={(e) => {
            setPassword(e.target.value)
          }}
        />
     
      </div>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='password'> Confirm password</label>
        <input
          type='password'
          name='password'
          id=''
          value={confirmPassword}
          onChange={(e) => {
            setConfirmPassword(e.target.value)
          }}
        />
      
      </div>

      <div>
        <label htmlFor='email'>Email</label>
        <input
          type='text'
          name='email'
          id=''
          value={email}
          onChange={(e) => setName(setEmail(e.target.value))}
        />
       
      </div>

      <div>
        <button type='submit'>Submit</button>
      </div>
    </form>

Conditionally showing of Errors

We created a state the store the error messages of each field.
We show this error only if the state is not null || undefine || ""

<form method='POST' onSubmit={submit} noValidate>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='name'>Name</label>
        <input
          type='text'
          name='Name'
          id=''
          value={Name}
          onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
        />
        {nameError ? <span className='errorMessage'>{nameError}</span> : null}
      </div>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='password'>password</label>
        <input
          type='password'
          name='password'
          id=''
          value={password}
          onChange={(e) => {
            setPassword(e.target.value)
          }}
        />
        {passwordError ? (
          <span className='errorMessage'>{passwordError}</span>
        ) : null}
      </div>
      <div>
        <label htmlFor='password'> Confirm password</label>
        <input
          type='password'
          name='password'
          id=''
          value={confirmPassword}
          onChange={(e) => {
            setConfirmPassword(e.target.value)
          }}
        />
        {confirmpasswordError ? (
          <span className='errorMessage'>{confirmpasswordError}</span>
        ) : null}
      </div>

      <div>
        <label htmlFor='email'>Email</label>
        <input
          type='text'
          name='email'
          id=''
          value={email}
          onChange={(e) => setName(setEmail(e.target.value))}
        />
        {emailError ? <span className='errorMessage'>{emailError}</span> : null}
      </div>

      <div>
        <button type='submit'>Submit</button>
      </div>
    </form>

Validating form onSubmit

const submit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault()

    validateName(Name, 'Name', setNameError, 3, 10)
    validatePassword(password, setPasswordError)
    validateEmail(email, setEmailError)
    validateConfirmPassword(password, confirmPassword, setConfirmpasswordError)
  }

storing the value of the function

const submit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault()

  let validName=  validateName(Name, 'Name', setNameError, 3, 10)
   let validPassword validatePassword(password, setPasswordError)
  let validEmail = validateEmail(email, setEmailError)
  let validConfirmPassword=  validateConfirmPassword(password, confirmPassword, setConfirmpasswordError)
  }
  
  if (validName && validPassword && validEmail && validConfirmPassword ) {
// send respond to a server 

}

License

MIT © labaran1