blackjk3/react-form-builder

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React Form Builder

A complete react form builder that interfaces with a json endpoint to load and save generated forms. The toolbox contains 16 items for gathering data. Everything from star ratings to signature boxes!

Editing Items

Basic Usage

var React = require('react');
var FormBuilder = require('react-forms-builder');

React.render(
  <FormBuilder.ReactFormBuilder />,
  document.body
)

Props

var items = [{
  key: 'Header',
  name: 'Header Text',
  icon: 'fa fa-header',
  static: true,
  content: 'Placeholder Text...'
},
{
  key: 'Paragraph',
  name: 'Paragraph',
  static: true,
  icon: 'fa fa-paragraph',
  content: 'Placeholder Text...'
}];

<FormBuilder.ReactFormBuilder
  url='path/to/GET/initial.json'
  toolbarItems={items}
  saveUrl='path/to/POST/built/form.json' />

React Form Generator

Now that a form is built and saved, let's generate it from the saved json.

var React = require('react');
var FormBuilder = require('react-forms-builder');

React.render(
  <FormBuilder.ReactFormGenerator
    form_action="/path/to/form/submit"
    form_method="POST"
    task_id={12} // Used to submit a hidden variable with the id to the form from the database.
    answer_data={JSON_ANSWERS} // Answer data, only used if loading a pre-existing form with values.
    authenticity_token={AUTH_TOKEN} // If using Rails and need an auth token to submit form.
    data={JSON_QUESTION_DATA} // Question data
  />,
  document.body
)

Form Params

Name	Type	Required?	Description
form_action	string	Required	URL path to submit the form
form_method	string	Required	Verb used in the form submission.
action_name	string	Optional	Defines form submit button text. Defaults to "Submit"
data	array	Required	Question data retrieved from the database
back_action	string	Optional	URL path to go back if needed.
back_name	string	Optional	Button text for back action. Defaults to "Cancel".
task_id	integer	Optional	User to submit a hidden variable with id to the form on the backend database.
answer_data	array	Optional	Answer data, only used if loading a pre-existing form with values.
authenticity_token	string	Optional	If using Rails and need an auth token to submit form.
hide_actions	boolean	Optional	If you would like to hide the submit / cancel buttons set to true.
display_short	boolean	Optional	Display an optional "shorter page/form" which is common for legal documents or situations where the user will just have to sign or fill out a shorter form with only the critical elements.
read_only	boolean	Optional	Shows a read only version which has fields disabled and removes "required" labels.
variables	object	Optional	Key/value object that can be used for Signature variable replacement.

Read only Signatures

Read only signatures allow you to use a saved/canned signature to be placed into the form. The signature will be passed in through the variables property to ReactFormGenerator and ReactFormBuilder.

To use a read only signature, choose the "Read only" option and enter the key value of the variable that will be used to pass in the signature.

The signature data should be in base 64 format.

There is a variables.js file that contains a sample base 64 signature. This variable is passed into the demo builder and generator for testing. Use the variable key "JOHN" to test the variable replacement.

Vendor Dependencies

In order to make the form builder look pretty, there are a few dependencies other than React. See the example code in index.html for more details.

Bootstrap
FontAwesome
jQuery

SASS

All relevant styles are located in css/application.css.scss.

DEMO

$ npm install
$ npm start

Then navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser and you should be able to see the form builder in action.

Tests

$ npm test

In order to run tests you will need to install Cairo which is needed for node-canvas. Go to https://www.npmjs.com/package/canvas for more details.