yuko29 / react-hook-form-mui

Material-UI form components ready to use with react-hook-form

Material-UI and react-hook-form combined

About this project

This project simplifies the use of react-hook-form and Material-UI. It provides opinionated use cases with following components:

• FormContainer
• AutocompleteElement
• TextFieldElement
• SelectElement
• MultiSelectElement
• RadioButtonGroup
• CheckboxButtonGroup
• CheckboxElement
• SwitchElement
• PasswordElement
• DatePickerElement

The components are written in TypeScript and attempt an easy integration.

How to use it

Installation

# npm install react-hook-form react-hook-form-mui
# yarn add react-hook-form react-hook-form-mui

This package utilizes pickers and icons of the MUI ecosystem. If you make use of it add them to your app.

#  npm install @mui/x-date-pickers @mui/icons-material
#  yarn add @mui/x-date-pickers @mui/icons-material

Important

From versions >= 3.x of this package MUI v5 is in use. Versions of 1 & 2 using Material-UI v4

Your component code

import {FormContainer, TextFieldElement} from 'react-hook-form-mui'

function Form() {
    return (
        <FormContainer
            defaultValues={{name: ''}}
            onSuccess={data => console.log(data)}
        >
            <TextFieldElement name="name" label="Name" required/>
        </FormContainer>
    )
}

You can have a look at the example folder which sets up NextJS with react-hook-form-mui

FormContainer creates formContext

The <FormContainer /> wires up a form and you can create sub-components which either make use of useFormContext() | useWatch() to react to form values.

Demo

Check out Storybook: Demo

You will find examples and use cases.

With Datepicker

If you are using the DatepickerElement keep in mind that you have to wrap your form with a provider:

Examples for Dayjs or DateFns provider (used in the demo):

• DateFns
• Dayjs

Bundle

This project uses microbundle to wrap the package for npm.