Forms are very verbose in React, and a lot of the time, you end up copy pasting a lot of boilerplate.
This repository is a set of high order components designed to help you take control again of your forms with React Native and Formik
Features
- Easily composable set of helpers
- Connects your React Native input to Formik with no boilerplate (See
handleTextInput
) - Add a
type
prop on your TextInput to take care of the input options based on the type (SeewithInputTypeProps
) - Automatically focus the next input (See
withNextInputAutoFocus
) - Component agnostic: Handle any other form component with any design with
withFormikControl
The point is to make your forms easy to write and provide features your users will expect with code as small as:
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<Switch label="Accept terms and conditions" name="accepted" />
<DatePicker label="Birthday" name="birthday" />
<Button onPress={props.handleSubmit} title="SUBMIT" />
Table of contents
yarn add formik react-native-formik
The Gist See it in Snack
We can use any Input
component. It will receive an error
prop in addition to the usual TextInput
props.
For instance, we can use react-native-material-textfield for the material design.
We can compose our input with handleTextInput
to make it boilerplate free. It will:
- automatically manage its state in formik provided it has a
name
prop - automatically set its
error
prop if input is touched or form has been submitted - automatically adds the correct
TextInput
props dependending on its type (at the moment,email
,password
,digits
,name
are supported)
Let's add in withNextInputAutoFocusInput
, which provides those awesome features:
- when an input is submitted, it will automatically focuses on the next or submit the form if it's the last one
- sets return key to "next" or "done" if input is the last one or not
For
withNextInputAutoFocus
to work, the input component should be a class and implement afocus
method.
import { compose } from "recompose";
import {
handleTextInput,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput
} from "react-native-formik";
import { TextField } from "react-native-material-textfield";
const MyInput = compose(
handleTextInput,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput
)(TextField);
To complement withNextInputAutoFocusInput
, we need to create a Form
component, for instance:
import { View } from "react-native";
import { withNextInputAutoFocusForm } from "react-native-formik";
const Form = withNextInputAutoFocusForm(View);
We can also create a validation schema, with yup
. It's of course possible to use other validation possibilities provided by Formik, but yup
makes validation and error messaging painless.
import * as Yup from "yup";
const validationSchema = Yup.object().shape({
email: Yup.string()
.required()
.email("well that's not an email"),
password: Yup.string()
.required()
.min(2, "pretty sure this will be hacked")
});
Then the form in itself becomes simple:
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => console.log(values)}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<MyInput label="First Name" name="firstName" type="name" />
<MyInput label="Last Name" name="lastName" type="name" />
<Button onPress={props.handleSubmit} title="SUBMIT" />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
);
Full code:
import React from "react";
import { Button, TextInput, View } from "react-native";
import { compose } from "recompose";
import { Formik } from "formik";
import * as Yup from "yup";
import {
handleTextInput,
withNextInputAutoFocusForm,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput
} from "react-native-formik";
import { TextField } from "react-native-material-textfield";
const MyInput = compose(
handleTextInput,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput
)(TextField);
const Form = withNextInputAutoFocusForm(View);
const validationSchema = Yup.object().shape({
email: Yup.string()
.required("please! email?")
.email("well that's not an email"),
password: Yup.string()
.required()
.min(2, "pretty sure this will be hacked")
});
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => console.log(values)}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<MyInput label="First Name" name="firstName" type="name" />
<MyInput label="Last Name" name="lastName" type="name" />
<Button onPress={props.handleSubmit} title="SUBMIT" />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
);
Boilerplate-free, hassle-free, our form is awesome with minimum code required.
Custom components See it in Snack
Thanks to withFormikControl
, formik
and react-native-formik
can handle any custom component just like TextInputs, granted that the component takes as props:
{
value: ValueType,
setFieldValue: (value: ValueType) => void,
error: ?string,
setFieldTouched: () => void
}
If you want to use withNextInputAutoFocus
, your component should be a class and have a focus
method.
Below is a simple example, a full example is available on ./src/Example/DatePicker.js
.
A very simple example would be handling a Switch
component in your form:
import React from "react";
import { Text, Switch as RNSwitch } from "react-native";
import { withFormikControl } from "react-native-formik";
class Switch extends React.PureComponent {
render() {
const { error, value, setFieldValue, label } = this.props;
return (
<React.Fragment>
<RNSwitch
value={value}
ios_backgroundColor={error ? "red" : "transparent"}
onValueChange={setFieldValue}
/>
<Text>{label}</Text>
</React.Fragment>
);
}
}
export default withFormikControl(Switch);
You can now use it in your form just like any other input:
<Switch label="Accept terms and conditions" name="termsAndConditionsAccepted" />
You may need to format inputs as the user types in. For instance, adding spaces in a telephone number (0612345678
-> 06 12 34 56 78
).
Here's how you would do it:
const formatPhoneNumber: string => string = (unformattedPhoneNumber) => ...;
...
<Formik
render={({ values }) => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput name="phoneNumber" value={formatPhoneNumber(values.phoneNumber)} />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
The purpose of this section is to give you a solution to create a bottom form which will go up when the keyboard appears, and the content at the top at the page will disappear.
You have to:
- Create a form like you learnt above ;
- Use react-native-keyboard-spacer: it will create view with the keyboard's size when the keyboard will opened;
- Use react-native-hide-with-keyboard: it will hide component when the keyboard will opened.
import React, { PureComponent } from "react";
import { Image, Platform, ScrollView } from "react-native";
import Hide from "react-native-hide-with-keyboard";
import KeyboardSpacer from "react-native-keyboard-spacer";
import { Formik } from "formik";
import { Button, FormFormik, TextInputFormik } from "./components";
const cat = require("./cat.jpg");
class AdoptACat extends PureComponent<{}> {
render() {
return (
<ScrollView
style={styles.container}
contentContainerStyle={styles.contentContainer}
keyboardShouldPersistTaps="handled"
>
<Hide>
<Image source={cat} style={styles.image} />
</Hide>
<View style={styles.fillContainer} />
<Formik
onSubmit={() => {}}
render={props => (
<FormFormik>
<TextInputFormik
name="catName"
placeholder={"His name"}
returnKeyType="next"
type="name"
/>
<TextInputFormik
name="humanName"
placeholder={"Your name"}
returnKeyType="done"
type="name"
/>
<Button text={"Adopt him ..."} />
</FormFormik>
)}
/>
{Platform.OS === "ios" && <KeyboardSpacer />}
</ScrollView>
);
}
}
const styles = {
container: {
backgroundColor: "white",
flex: 1,
padding: 20
},
contentContainer: {
flex: 1
},
fillContainer: {
flex: 1
},
image: {
alignSelf: "center",
resizeMode: "contain"
}
};
export default AdoptACat;
For Android, we don't have to use react-native-keyboard-spacer because android:windowSoftInputMode
is in adjustResize
mode. Indeed, the view is automatically resize and you don't have to fill it like on iOS.
Enjoy your life :
See usage
A set of default HOC to manage TextInputs.
Includes withErrorIfNeeded
, withInputTypeProps
and withFormikControl
remapped for specifically for the React Native TextInput
Pass in the Formik error for the input as a prop, only if input has been touched or the form has been submitted
Pass in the Formik error for the input as a prop.
Add a focused
prop to the input depending on its focus state.
Let's face it, you'll always want to remove auto-capitalization for email inputs and use the email keyboard.
Using withInputTypeProps
and passing a type
, you'll always get the correct props for you input.
import { TextInput } from "react-native";
import { withInputTypeProps } from "react-native-formik";
const MyInput = withInputTypeProps(TextInput);
const emailInput = () => <MyInput type="email" />;
Authorized types as of now are email
, password
, digits
and name
. Setting another type has no consequence.
Check the props set by the type in the source!
withNextInputAutoFocus See example in Snack
- when an input is submitted, it will automatically focuses on the next or submit the form if it's the last one
- sets return key to "next" or "done" if input is the last one or not
⚠️ your input component needs to be a class and needs to implement afocus
function⚠️ Inputs need to be wrapped bywithNextInputAutoFocusInput
and the container of the inputs need to be wrapped inwithNextInputAutoFocusForm
.
import { TextInput, View } from "react-native";
import {
withNextInputAutoFocusForm,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput
} from "react-native-formik";
class CustomInput extends React.PureComponent {
// Implement a focus function that focused whatever needs to be focused
focus = () => { this.input.focus(); }
render() {
return (
<TextField ref={input => this.input = input} {...this.props} />
);
}
}
const MyInput = withNextInputAutoFocusInput(CustomInput);
const Form = withNextInputAutoFocusForm(View);
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => console.log(values)}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<MyInput label="First Name" name="firstName" type="name" />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
);
- when an form is submitted, and some input is invalid, it will automatically focuses on the first error.
⚠️ the previous stepwithNextInputAutoFocus
needs to be implemented.⚠️ The button need to be wrapped bywithFocusOnFirstError
.
import { TextInput, View, Button } from "react-native";
import {
withNextInputAutoFocusForm,
withNextInputAutoFocusInput,
withFocusOnFirstError,
} from "react-native-formik";
class CustomInput extends React.PureComponent {
// Implement a focus function that focused whatever needs to be focused
focus = () => { this.input.focus(); }
// Implement your logic hasError().
hasError = () => !!this.props.error && !!this.props.externalError;
render() {
return (
<TextField ref={input => this.input = input} {...this.props} />
);
}
}
const MyInput = withNextInputAutoFocusInput(CustomInput);
const Form = withNextInputAutoFocusForm(View);
const Button = withFocusOnFirstError(Button);
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => console.log(values)}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<MyInput label="First Name" name="firstName" type="name" />
<Button title="Submit" />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
);
We can also trigger this outside Formik context, maybe you wanna do some api calls, set the errors manually and after this focus on errors.
import {
focusOnFirstError,
} from "react-native-formik";
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => {
//call apis
// set the errors manually
focusOnFirstError();
}}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<Form>
<MyInput label="Email" name="email" type="email" />
<MyInput label="Password" name="password" type="password" />
<MyInput label="First Name" name="firstName" type="name" />
<Button title="Submit" />
</Form>
);
}}
/>
);
Pass in the Formik touched value for the input as a prop.
Wraps your component into a TouchableOpacity
which, when pressed, opens a dialog to pick a value.
You need to provide a values
props with the pickable items.
If you need to dismiss the picker's "Keyboard", you can use KeyboardModal.dismiss()
like below.
import { TextInput, View } from "react-native";
import { compose } from "recompose";
import makeInput, {
KeyboardModal,
withPickerValues
} from "react-native-formik";
const MyPicker = compose(
makeInput,
withPickerValues
)(TextInput);
export default props => (
<Formik
onSubmit={values => {
KeyboardModal.dismiss();
console.log(values);
}}
validationSchema={validationSchema}
render={props => {
return (
<View>
<MyPicker
name="gender"
values={[
{ label: "male", value: "Mr" },
{ label: "female", value: "Mrs" }
]}
/>
</View>
);
}}
/>
);
The purpose of this section is to give you a solution to create a bottom form which will go up when the keyboard appears, and the content at the top at the page will disappear.
You have to:
- Create a form like you learnt above ;
- Use react-native-keyboard-spacer: it will create view with the keyboard's size when the keyboard will opened;
- Use react-native-hide-with-keyboard: it will hide component when the keyboard will opened.
import React, { PureComponent } from "react";
import { Image, Platform, ScrollView } from "react-native";
import Hide from "react-native-hide-with-keyboard";
import KeyboardSpacer from "react-native-keyboard-spacer";
import { Formik } from "formik";
import { Button, FormFormik, TextInputFormik } from "./components";
const cat = require("./cat.jpg");
class AdoptACat extends PureComponent<{}> {
render() {
return (
<ScrollView
style={styles.container}
contentContainerStyle={styles.contentContainer}
keyboardShouldPersistTaps="handled"
>
<Hide>
<Image source={cat} style={styles.image} />
</Hide>
<View style={styles.fillContainer} />
<Formik
onSubmit={() => {}}
render={props => (
<FormFormik>
<TextInputFormik
name="catName"
placeholder={"His name"}
returnKeyType="next"
type="name"
/>
<TextInputFormik
name="humanName"
placeholder={"Your name"}
returnKeyType="done"
type="name"
/>
<Button text={"Adopt him ..."} />
</FormFormik>
)}
/>
{Platform.OS === "ios" && <KeyboardSpacer />}
</ScrollView>
);
}
}
const styles = {
container: {
backgroundColor: "white",
flex: 1,
padding: 20
},
contentContainer: {
flex: 1
},
fillContainer: {
flex: 1
},
image: {
alignSelf: "center",
resizeMode: "contain"
}
};
export default AdoptACat;
For Android, we don't have to use react-native-keyboard-spacer because android:windowSoftInputMode
is in adjustResize
mode. Indeed, the view is automatically resize and you don't have to fill it like on iOS.
Enjoy your life :