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christianalfoni / formsy-react

A form input builder and validator for React JS
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Is it logical to still use formsy-react? #327

Open motoshifin opened 8 years ago

motoshifin commented 8 years ago

Hi everyone, it seems like there's no clear maintainer of this project anymore, should I still continue using this or just go with other form validation libraries? I'm a react beginner and this one's the easiest to use so far.

aight8 commented 8 years ago

Definitely not. It's really worth it switch to the redux-form library, this project is death (last commit was in december 2015) and the maintainer don't reply to any requests in this repo (there was some requests about a takeover too but no response). This library is easier to use at the first sight since it uses internal states and the context functionality of react instead of i.e. redux. Nevertheless, it's full of fundamental bugs so you will getting stuck sometime to one of these and get headache since this library isn't maintained anymore. So I really suggest you to take an extra effort to use a library which is future proof including a better architecture (i.e. redux). A wonder if this library will ever support react15 officially.

Ismael commented 8 years ago

Yes: Development is being picked up again, see https://github.com/christianalfoni/formsy-react/issues/301#issuecomment-211562388

eriklharper commented 8 years ago

@aight8 not everybody is using or needs redux. I think its good to support libraries like Formsy that apply a minimal approach to form management without extra dependencies. While Formsy isn't the best for your use case, it doesn't diminish its value for others.