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davidkpiano / react-redux-form

Create forms easily in React with Redux.
https://davidkpiano.github.io/react-redux-form
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Maintenance mode #1174

Open sbusch opened 6 years ago

sbusch commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/davidkpiano/react-redux-form/commit/c5d6d4d4a696dd5cc31da8c8721b3a6fd6af1dc3 annotates the GH front page with

⚠️ This project is in maintenance mode only. Please consider using Formik instead.

We're quite happy users of React Redux Form and are wondering if it's just lack of time and/or maintainers or are there any technical reasons/design choices that can't be fixed?

@davidkpiano could you please elaborate on this?

I think Formik is quite nice, easy to use and leverages the current state-of-the-art approach of using render props. But it's still young and has it's own problems. Take a look at the unresolved issues and open PRs. For example I couldn't find a clear story how to create reusable forms parts with good encapsulation (which includes validation). Although I'm not an active user of Formik, I fear that it could be too limited, and I'm not sure if it can handle advanced or exotic use cases in the future.

OTOH react-redux-form is very flexible and I'm quite confident about it's future, because every part is composable and accessible (state, reducers, action creators, ...).

Looking forward to your opinion, thanks!

davidkpiano commented 6 years ago

It mainly is a lack of time - it's in a stable state (I know a few companies using it in production) and I don't have time to handle the backlog of issues alone, many of which are probably invalid due to their extremely custom use-cases (it's virtually impossible to accommodate all use cases for forms in a single library).

However, I will continue to review PRs and welcome community contributions.

syte commented 6 years ago

@davidkpiano, this is a great lib for those of us who have to store form state in redux. In my use-case I have several forms that need to keep their form values long after being unmounted. I don't think formik necessarily covers this use-case as of yet. Thanks for continuing to maintain it. This is the cleanest implementation of handling forms in redux that I've seen.