Managing React Form State Using the React-Form Library - Shopify
9/14/2022
This post introduces Shopify's open-source `react-form` library from the Quilt repository. It details the `useForm` and `useField` hooks for managing form state and validation. The post walks through practical implementation steps: cleaning up existing `useState` logic, importing and using `useForm` and `useField` to manage form fields (title and description), enabling form submission via the `submit` function returned by `useForm`, resetting the form after submission using the `reset` method, conditionally enabling the save button based on form 'dirtiness' using the `dirty` property, and implementing form validation with the `notEmpty` hook for required fields. It also highlights other hooks and utilities available in the library and mentions related packages in the Quilt repo like `react-graphql`, `react-testing`, and `react-i18n`.