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0 pointscabalamat2y ago0 comments

> What about complex validation rules?

I wpould use my server-side form and database library, Bozen[1] to do this.

[1]: https://github.com/cabalamat/frambozenapp

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throwaway603202y ago

So the user would have to submit the form and be met with 10s of errors? I'd rather tell them immediately.

rmbyrro2y ago

Sure, and React is the best way to show a message in response to an input in a web form, right?

Let me tell you some news, they just launched an integration of this new HTML <form> thing with javascript, so you can have JS listening to inputs and displaying information anywhere on the page. Cool, isn't it?

Ah, but the sad part, again, is you don't get to download an unnecessary library for that. It comes baked and activated into all browsers by default. It doesn't make your resume shine, either...

throwaway603202y ago

(P)React is the best way to do it in a maintainable, easy-to-reuse, easy-to-understand, extendable fashion, indeed. Show me something better and I'll jump on it.

I don't care about resumes, I own my consultancy. I care about quickly solving business problems for my clients, not making new problems in the process, and reusing the solutions. I am not paid hourly, I don't make money from fixing spaghetti code broken by adding a stateful form control elsewhere.

endofreach2y ago

Just saying: You can do input validation without JS using the pattern attribute.

cabalamatOP2y ago

If people typically get 10s of errors on a single form, it might well be better to split it up into several sub forms.

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throwaway603202y ago

So the user would have to submit the form and be met with 10s of errors? I'd rather tell them immediately.

rmbyrro2y ago

Sure, and React is the best way to show a message in response to an input in a web form, right?

Ah, but the sad part, again, is you don't get to download an unnecessary library for that. It comes baked and activated into all browsers by default. It doesn't make your resume shine, either...

throwaway603202y ago

(P)React is the best way to do it in a maintainable, easy-to-reuse, easy-to-understand, extendable fashion, indeed. Show me something better and I'll jump on it.

endofreach2y ago

Just saying: You can do input validation without JS using the pattern attribute.

cabalamatOP2y ago

If people typically get 10s of errors on a single form, it might well be better to split it up into several sub forms.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse