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Intuitive, feature-complete API providing a seamless experience to developers when building forms.
Performant, flexible and extensible forms with easy-to-use validation.
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Intuitive, feature-complete API providing a seamless experience to developers when building forms.
Leverage existing HTML markup and validate your forms with our constraint-based validation API.
Performance is important and package size matters. React Hook Form is a tiny library without any dependencies.
Minimizes the number of re-renders and faster mounting, striving to provide the best user experience.
Since form state is inherently local, it can be easily adopted without other dependencies.
Reducing the amount of code that you have to write is one of the primary goals for React Hook Form. To illustrate that, let's look at a very simple form of validation among some of the most popular form validation libraries.
⚠ Note: Both Formik and Redux-Form code below are copied from official documentation.
import React from "react";
import { Formik, Form, Field } from "formik";
function validateEmail(value) {
let error;
if (!value) {
error = "Required";
} else if (!/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i.test(value)) {
error = "Invalid email address";
}
return error;
}
function validateUsername(value) {
let error;
if (value === "admin") {
error = "Nice try!";
}
return error;
}
const Example = () => {
const onSubmit = values => {
console.log(values);
};
return (
<Formik
initialValues={{
username: "",
email: ""
}}
onSubmit={onSubmit}
>
{({ errors, touched }) => (
<Form>
<Field name="email" validate={validateEmail} />
{errors.email && touched.email && errors.email}
<Field name="username" validate={validateUsername} />
{errors.username && touched.username && errors.username}
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</Form>
)}
</Formik>
);
};
import React from "react";
import { useForm } from "react-hook-form";
const Example = () => {
const { handleSubmit, register, errors } = useForm();
const onSubmit = values => {
console.log(values);
};
return (
<form onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>
<input
name="email"
ref={register({
required: 'Required',
pattern: {
value: /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i,
message: "invalid email address"
}
})}
/>
{errors.email && errors.email.message}
<input
name="username"
ref={register({
validate: value => value !== "admin" || "Nice try!"
})}
/>
{errors.username && errors.username.message}
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
);
};
import React from "react";
import { Provider } from "react-redux";
import { Field, reduxForm } from "redux-form";
import store from "./store";
const validate = values => {
const errors = {};
if (!values.username) {
errors.username = "Required";
} else if (values.username.length !== "admin") {
errors.username = "Nice try!";
}
if (!/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i.test(values.email)) {
errors.email = "Invalid email address";
}
return errors;
};
const renderField = ({ input, label, type, meta: { touched, error } }) => (
<>
<input {...input} placeholder={label} type={type} />
{touched && error && <span>{error}</span>}
</>
);
const Form = props => {
const { handleSubmit } = props;
const onSubmit = values => {
console.log(values);
};
return (
<form onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>
<Field name="email" type="email" component={renderField} label="Email" />
<Field name="username" component={renderField} label="Username" />
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
);
};
const FormRedux = reduxForm({ form: "syncValidation", validate })(Example);
const Example = () => (
<Provider store={store}>
<Example/>
</Provider>
);
You have the ability to isolate components re-render which lead to less performance impact on your page or app. The following example demonstrate such behaviour.
Note: Type in the input box to see the render behaviour.
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Do you ever wonder how many component re-renders have been triggered by the user? React Hook Form embraces uncontrolled form validation to reduce unnecessary performance impact.
Total re-renders: 30+
Total re-renders: 3
Total re-renders: 30+
The following results demonstrate how long it took to render and mount the components. Results are captured under a 6x CPU slow down on App start with the Chrome Dev Tools' performance tab. The running code is from the section above Library Code Comparison.
⚠ Want to see more intense performance tests? Check out the result of 1000 fields within a form here.
The following form demonstrates form validation in action. Each column represents what has been captured in the custom hook. You can also change fields in the form by clicking the EDIT button.
ⓘ Change input value to see watched values
{}
ⓘ Validation errors will appear here
ⓘ Touched fields will display here
[]
Form validation should be much simpler. React Hook Form will lead you to write less code and have better performance. Check out the Get Started section and learn more on the API documentation page.