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

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.