candy_wrapper

candy_wrappers are lightweight wrapper components around popular UI libraries made to work with form_props. Easily use the power of Rails forms with any supported React UI library.

Caution

This project is in its early phases of development. Its interface, behavior, and name are likely to change drastically before a major version release.

Component status

Each component are meant to be copied from this repo to your own project and customized to your liking. There are no CLI tools to help. just copy and paste from github.

form_props helper	Component	Vanilla React	React Aria	?
f.text_field	Checkbox	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.collection_check_boxes	CollectionCheckboxes	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.collection_radio_buttons	CollectionRadioButtons	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.color_field	ColorField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.date_field	DateField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.datetime_local_field	DateTimeLocalField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.email_field	EmailField	✔️	⬜	⬜
	FieldError	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.month_field	MonthField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.number_field	NumberField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.password_field	PasswordField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.range_field	RangeField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.search_field	SearchField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.select	Select	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.tel_field	TelField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.file_field	FileField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.text_field	TextField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.time_field	TimeField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.url_field	UrlField	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.text_area	TextArea	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.grouped_collection_select	Select	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.weekday_select	Select	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.time_zone_select	Select	✔️	⬜	⬜
f.submit	SubmitButton	✔️	⬜	⬜

Installation

There's nothing to install, but if you need types:

npm install -D candy_wrapper

Then go to the wrapper directory in this repo and copy the wrappers for the UI library of your choice into your project.

Usage

Once you've copied the components to your project. Use form_props to build your form:

json.newPostForm do
  form_props(@post) do |f|
    f.text_field :title
    f.submit
  end
end

This would create a payload that looks something this:

{
  someForm: {
    props: {
      id: "create-post",
      action: "/posts/123",
      acceptCharset: "UTF-8",
      method: "post"
    },
    extras: {
      method: {
        name: "_method",
        type: "hidden",
        defaultValue: "patch",
        autoComplete: "off"
      },
      utf8: {
        name: "utf8",
        type: "hidden",
        defaultValue: "\u0026#x2713;",
        autoComplete: "off"
      }
      csrf: {
        name: "utf8",
        type: "authenticity_token",
        defaultValue: "SomeTOken!23$",
        autoComplete: "off"
      }
    },
    inputs: {
      title: {name: "post[title]", id: "post_title", type: "text", defaultValue: "hello"},
      submit: {type: "submit", value: "Update a Post"}
    }
  }
}

Take the payload and pass it to the wrapper:

import {Form, TextField, SubmitButton} from './copied_components'

const {form, extras, inputs} = newPostForm

<Form {...form} extras={extras}>
  <TextField {...inputs.title} label="Post title" />
  <SubmitButton {...inputs.submit} />
</Form>

Server errors

Each wrapper comes with inline support for server errors which renders a FieldError underneath the input.

import {Form, TextField} from './copied_components'

const validationErrors = {
  full_title: "Invalid length"
}

const {form, extras, inputs} = newPostForm

<Form {...form} extras={extras}>
  <TextField {...inputs.title} label="Post title" errorKey="full_title" />
  <SubmitButton {...inputs.submit} />
</Form>

Contributors

Thank you, contributors!