📌 Note on Package Naming

This package @goutham1494/form-engine is functionally identical to form-engine-react.

✅ Recommended package: form-engine-react — it uses a clean, unscoped name that’s easier to adopt and share.

🧪 All new features and updates are first tested in @goutham1494/form-engine. Once verified and stable, they are published in form-engine-react.

📦 Both packages are actively maintained and synced from the same GitHub repo: https://github.com/goutham-05/form-engine-react

🧩 Form Engine

A flexible, schema-driven dynamic form builder for React powered by React Hook Form. Build professional, complex forms, multi-step wizards, and admin panels—without repetitive boilerplate!

✨ Features

• Schema-based configuration: Define forms as easy-to-maintain JSON objects.
• Validation out of the box: Supports required, regex, length, and custom logic.
• Debounced updates: Reduce unnecessary validations and API calls.
• Conditional visibility: Show/hide fields or groups based on form state.
• Grouped & nested fields: Logical sections and sub-forms.
• Custom rendering: Full override or slot for your own UI.
• Multi-step wizard: Stepper forms built-in.
• Modern default styling: Easily override with your own.
• 100% extensible: Use in admin panels, CRMs, onboarding, settings, and more!

📦 Installation

npm install @goutham1494/form-engine
# or
yarn add @goutham1494/form-engine

⚡ Quick Start

Basic Dynamic Form

import React from "react";
import {
  DynamicForm,
  FIELD_TYPES,
  type FormFieldSchema
} from "@goutham1494/form-engine";

const schema: FormFieldSchema[] = [
  {
    name: "email",
    label: "Email",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.EMAIL,
    required: true,
    validation: {
      pattern: {
        value: /^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$/,
        message: "Invalid email format"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    name: "subscribe",
    label: "Subscribe",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.CHECKBOX,
    defaultValue: false
  }
];

export default function App() {
  return (
    <DynamicForm
      schema={schema}
      onSubmit={(data) => alert(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2))}
      showReset
    />
  );
}

Multi-Step Wizard

import React from "react";
import { FormWizard, FIELD_TYPES } from "@goutham1494/form-engine";

const steps = [
  {
    title: "Personal Info",
    fields: [
      {
        name: "firstName",
        label: "First Name",
        type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
        required: true
      },
      {
        name: "lastName",
        label: "Last Name",
        type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
        required: true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    title: "Contact",
    fields: [
      { name: "email", label: "Email", type: FIELD_TYPES.EMAIL, required: true }
    ]
  }
];

export default function WizardDemo() {
  return (
    <FormWizard
      steps={steps}
      onSubmit={(data) => alert(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2))}
      showProgress
      wizardStyle={{ maxWidth: 480, margin: "2rem auto" }}
    />
  );
}

🎨 Styling

• Out-of-the-box: Uses modern, accessible inline styles.
• Full customization:
  • Pass your own formClassName, buttonClassName, or use the formStyle prop.
  • Add inputClass, wrapperClass, and other overrides per field in your schema.
• Custom CSS:
  Create a file (e.g. form-styles.css) and pass your class names!

🧱 Supported Field Types

• text
• email
• number
• textarea
• select
• radio
• checkbox (single & multi)
• group (nested fields)
• Custom: with render or overrideComponent
• Wizard: with <FormWizard />

🧩 Example Schema

export const schema = [
  {
    name: "email",
    label: "Email",
    type: "email",
    required: true,
    validation: {
      pattern: {
        value: /^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$/,
        message: "Invalid email format"
      }
    }
  },
  {
    name: "subscribe",
    label: "Subscribe",
    type: "checkbox",
    defaultValue: false
  },
  {
    name: "preferences",
    label: "Preferences",
    type: "group",
    validation: {
      custom: (value) => value?.email || value?.sms || "Select at least one"
    },
    children: [
      { name: "email", label: "Email", type: "checkbox" },
      { name: "sms", label: "SMS", type: "checkbox" }
    ]
  }
];

👩‍🎨 CSS Example

import {
  DynamicForm,
  FIELD_TYPES,
  type FormFieldSchema
} from "@goutham1494/form-engine";

export const signupFormSchema: FormFieldSchema[] = [
  {
    name: "firstName",
    label: "First Name",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
    required: true,
    placeholder: "Enter your first name",
    helpText: "Your given name",
    wrapperStyle: { marginBottom: 24 },
    labelStyle: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "1rem", color: "#374151" },
    inputStyle: {
      background: "#f9fafb",
      borderRadius: 8,
      padding: "12px 14px",
      border: "1px solid #d1d5db",
      width: "100%"
    },
    errorStyle: { color: "#dc2626", fontSize: "0.875rem" }
  },
  {
    name: "lastName",
    label: "Last Name",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
    required: true,
    placeholder: "Enter your last name",
    helpText: "Your family name",
    wrapperStyle: { marginBottom: 24 },
    labelStyle: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "1rem", color: "#374151" },
    inputStyle: {
      background: "#f9fafb",
      borderRadius: 8,
      padding: "12px 14px",
      border: "1px solid #d1d5db",
      width: "100%"
    },
    errorStyle: { color: "#dc2626", fontSize: "0.875rem" }
  },
  {
    name: "email",
    label: "Email Address",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.EMAIL,
    required: true,
    placeholder: "you@example.com",
    helpText: "We'll never share your email.",
    inputMode: "email",
    validation: {
      pattern: {
        value: /^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$/,
        message: "Invalid email format"
      }
    },
    wrapperStyle: { marginBottom: 24 },
    labelStyle: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "1rem", color: "#374151" },
    inputStyle: {
      background: "#f9fafb",
      borderRadius: 8,
      padding: "12px 14px",
      border: "1px solid #d1d5db",
      width: "100%"
    },
    errorStyle: { color: "#dc2626", fontSize: "0.875rem" }
  },
  {
    name: "password",
    label: "Password",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
    helpText: "Must be at least 6 characters",
    required: true,
    placeholder: "Create a password",
    inputMode: "text",
    validation: {
      minLength: {
        value: 6,
        message: "Password must be at least 6 characters"
      }
    },
    wrapperStyle: { marginBottom: 24 },
    labelStyle: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "1rem", color: "#374151" },
    inputStyle: {
      background: "#f9fafb",
      borderRadius: 8,
      padding: "12px 14px",
      border: "1px solid #d1d5db",
      width: "100%"
    },
    errorStyle: { color: "#dc2626", fontSize: "0.875rem" }
  },
  {
    name: "confirmPassword",
    label: "Confirm Password",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.TEXT,
    required: true,
    placeholder: "Re-enter password",
    inputMode: "text",
    validation: {
      custom: (value: any, allValues: any) =>
        value === allValues.password || "Passwords do not match"
    },
    wrapperStyle: { marginBottom: 24 },
    labelStyle: { fontWeight: 600, fontSize: "1rem", color: "#374151" },
    inputStyle: {
      background: "#f9fafb",
      borderRadius: 8,
      padding: "12px 14px",
      border: "1px solid #d1d5db",
      width: "100%"
    },
    errorStyle: { color: "#dc2626", fontSize: "0.875rem" }
  },
  {
    name: "terms",
    checkboxLabel: "",
    label: "I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy",
    type: FIELD_TYPES.CHECKBOX,
    required: true,
    wrapperStyle: {
      marginTop: 24,
      gridColumn: "1 / -1"
    },
    labelStyle: {
      fontWeight: 500,
      fontSize: "0.95rem",
      color: "#374151"
    },
    checkboxGroupClass: "signup-terms-checkbox-group",
    errorStyle: {
      color: "#dc2626",
      fontSize: "0.875rem"
    }
  }
];
export default function App() {
  return (
    <div
      style={{
        minHeight: "100vh",
        display: "flex",
        alignItems: "center",
        justifyContent: "center",
        background: "linear-gradient(135deg, #f5f7fa, #e0ecf8)",
        padding: "60px 16px"
      }}
    >
      <div
        style={{
          maxWidth: 480,
          width: "100%",
          background: "#ffffff",
          borderRadius: 20,
          boxShadow: "0 20px 60px rgba(0,0,0,0.08)",
          padding: "48px 40px",
          display: "flex",
          flexDirection: "column",
          gap: 40
        }}
      >
        <h2
          style={{
            margin: 0,
            fontSize: "2.25rem",
            fontWeight: 700,
            color: "#1976d2",
            textAlign: "center"
          }}
        >
          Register Your Account
        </h2>

        <div style={{ marginTop: 8 }}>
          <DynamicForm
            schema={signupFormSchema}
            onSubmit={(values) => console.log("submitted", values)}
            showReset
            resetLabel="Cancel"
            submitLabel="Create"
            extraActions={[
              {
                label: "Save as Draft",
                onClick: () => alert("Draft saved"),
                style: { background: "#f3f4f6", color: "#111827" }
              }
            ]}
          />
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

🙌 Contributing

• Open issues/PRs: Bug fixes, features, or docs are welcome!
• Pre-commit: Run npm run lint
• Code of Conduct: Be nice!

📄 License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Goutham Posannapeta

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.