7 Form Components For React Hook Form I Always Use

Building forms with validation is tedious and repetitive. So my friend and I created a library of form input components so we can just copy the code in every code base, styled minimally with all error validation message using Tailwind CSS and react-icons.

Demo Link

For the demo please visit rhf.clarence.link

Yup Demo

I also made a validation using Yup, you can access it on https://rhf.clarence.link/yup along with the source code.

Setup

1. Install these dependencies

yarn add react-hook-form @tailwindcss/forms react-icons

optional

yarn add react-datepicker react-dropzone react-select

2. Configure tailwind.config.js to use @tailwindcss/forms

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    // ...
  },
  plugins: [
    require('@tailwindcss/forms'),
    // ...
  ],
}

3. Form Structure

This is the default boilerplate, then you can insert the components inside the form

import { FormProvider, useForm } from 'react-hook-form';

export default function Page() {
  const methods = useForm();
  const { handleSubmit } = methods;

  return (
    <>
      <FormProvider {...methods}>
        <form onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>Inputs Here</form>
      </FormProvider>
    </>
  );
}

Default Form Components

1. Text Input

Normal Text Input, with error validation

2. PasswordInput

Password input with peek functionality

3. TextArea

Normal TextArea Input

4. DatePicker

Using react-datepicker library, provided with useful props like defaultYear, defaultMonth, locale lang

5. Select (Native)

Select Input using composition

6. File Upload Dropzone

Using react-dropzone library, we can specify selected file extension in the props

7. Select (react-select)

Using react-select library, allowing us to search on the select input

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