uniforms

At Vazco we often release our packages as open-source in order to avoid vendor lock-in for our clients, and simply because we believe in OSS. 

It saves us testing time and allows us to lower costs, while at the same time to give our clients an insight into the quality of our code. We also like to give back to the community.

Managing forms in React can be a really tedious task. When creating a forms package for React, our goal was to speed up the development of this very common functionality. We planned to build an automatic form generator, which would be easy to use in simple scenarios, and at the same time powerful enough to support even complex cases.

Radosław Miernik led the project and created not only a great package but also a wonderful community around it. As a result, uniforms are now in the top 10 popular React forms packages on GitHub, with over 1000 stars and 27000 downloads per month in npm.

We tried a few concepts for the gradual automation of forms before we started the implementation of uniforms. The final version supports GraphQL, SimpleSchema v.1, and v.2, and allows us to generate forms based on a schema. It enables developers to create custom fields with just one line of code and supports easy tweaking of form layouts to make them fit a custom UI.