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    As a developer, how do you feel about working with forms?

    Arif Hossain
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    Being a developer, I'm tired of styling, adding validations, adding CRUD APIs, and hooking them up with the front end every time I need to create a form! Although there are many great no-code form builders out there, most of them are built for marketers! Where I don't get the flexibility of connecting them with my own database, generating APIs & custom styling to match my website UI! So I decided to build a developer's first no-code form builder. But first I need to make sure if it's only my problem if there's actually a market need for need. If you are a developer & this sounds interesting, please consider joining the waitlist form 👉 https://form.softr.app.

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    Guillaume Rousseau
    I use React and yup to make formvalidation Seems quite difficult to buid a no code form validator. Bi=ut I would be glad to test your product... SomeThing like : const buildFormValues = (item) => { return { initialValues: { name: item.name || '', id: item.id, changePageDelay: item.changePageDelay || 5000, displayMessageDelay: item.displayMessageDelay || 500, enableDisplayMessage: item.enableDisplayMessage || false, enableDisplayEventPopup: item.enableDisplayEventPopup || false, enableHeader: item.enableHeader || false, titleHeader: item.titleHeader || '', urlLogo: item.urlLogo || '', }, validationSchema: { name: Yup.string().max(255).required(localStrings.check.fieldRequired), changePageDelay: Yup.number(localStrings.check.msFormat).positive(localStrings.check.msFormat) .required(localStrings.check.fieldRequired), displayMessageDelay: Yup.number(localStrings.check.msFormat).positive(localStrings.check.msFormat) .required(localStrings.check.fieldRequired) } }; }
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    Arif Hossain
    IndieHacks
    IndieHacks
    @guillaume_rousseau Well I use Prisma often, but what you mean by smart ORM?
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    Arif Hossain
    IndieHacks
    IndieHacks
    @guillaume_rousseau yeah I also do something like that.. and then you have to write the APIs as well! 🥲
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    Guillaume Rousseau
    @devarifhossain I use graphQl mapped to firebase noSql db which simplify a lot, just get the json payload and store it to db. But I agree that if you use Reast api on server this could be painfull but smart ORM could do the job !!
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