Are you a developer who:

  • Is building an application in React, but doesn’t want to manually build every form or their APIs?
  • Is frustrated with the lack of flexibility and options that are out there with form builders?
  • Can’t afford getting locked into a tech stack if things change?
  • Needs a plug and play data management solution that works with any system?
  • Or just wants a solution that will offload all of the busy work that comes with forms so you can focus on the core requirements of your app?

Then You Need To Know About This.

Maybe you’ve looked at a bunch of form builders because you know how time-consuming and complex forms can get, but you always seem to run into roadblocks.

For example…

What if you need to define complex logic and workflows, such as conditional field visibility, field calculations, and dynamic form branching—AND you need the forms rendered in React so you can connect and encapsulate them to other React components?

You’re probably looking at doing it by hand, but if your application is form-heavy, it’s tens or even hundreds of hours to get it all done.

Or what if you need to extend its capabilities, implement a lot of custom CSS, integrate your existing auth provider, require revision control or offline mode, configure team-based user access, or handle PDFs?

Then there’s the data.

It needs to be validated, stored, and integrated with backend services or APIs to process submissions.

Sometimes on-premise, in the cloud, or in legacy systems, or all three.

ALSO, what if a form needs to change and it’s deployed in multiple places? Every change request will come to YOU and you’ll have to spend hours to hunt down each location and make the changes.

On top of that, you might need to keep everything in house, in your environment, which rules out leveraging external 3rd-party tools.

When you start looking at the potential requirements, building forms for React is its own development project all by itself that requires extra hours to build and maintain.

But there’s a better way.

The Best Way To Build And Manage Forms For React And The Submission Data: Form.io

Form.io is a form management, data management, and rendering platform that lets you, or anyone, do all the complex form building, AND their APIs, in a drag and drop interface, that will output the JSON schema for you.

That means, as a developer, you don’t have to be the one who’s actually building the forms or APIs.

Then, with Form.io’s React Renderer, you can dynamically render your forms for React AND automatically hook that form into the REST API that’s generated from the same JSON schema—with a single line of code you can just copy and paste into your app.

If the form needs to change, you or anyone can edit the form in the drag and drop interface and the form will update automatically, in real time, and reflect the changes everywhere its deployed.

That’s especially useful when you’re performing rapid prototyping or implementing user feedback and you need to iterate with speed.

And when all the data is flowing through Form.io, you get a single source of truth that updates in real time that you can run reports on so you’re never in the dark.

So What Can Form.io Actually Do? Key Features:

You might be asking: “Can Form.io handle X?”—like those things mentioned above:

  • SAML, OAuth, custom JWT Tokens, and more authentication options
  • Offline mode
  • Advanced roles, teams, and permissions
  • File Uploads
  • Revision control
  • PDF input and output
  • Complex conditional logic, workflows, and validation
  • Seamlessly integrated, rendered forms for React
  • There’s a lot more.

Forms are also fully responsive out of the box and work on any device.