TL;DR: Struggling to keep form validation and UI in sync in your React app? Hereโs how I used Zod and React Hook Form together to define a single source of truthโdriving both runtime validation and required field indicators in the UI. The Problem: When Validation Drifts from UI Iโve been writing forms for as long as Iโve been writing codeโand …
In this blog, we will explore React Hook Form, an extremely lightweight and effective form building library using React. This open-source, third-party library has no dependencies and can be integrated with most existing forms or libraries. It provides the ability to subscribe to individual components, limiting the frequency of re-renders and making it more efficient.
Below, we will learn some of the basic usages of React Hook Form, some more in-depth features, and then look at an example form integrated with an existing UI library.