Inside-Out: A Clojure forms library

See Inside-Out: Documentation

io.github.mhuebert/inside-out {:git/sha "SHA"}

A tool for writing web forms. Syntax is minimal, and lets us focus on essential concerns: what is our target data structure? From what fields is it composed? How should these fields behave?

Features

1. Concise syntax for defining a form and its fields in one step. Each field stores a value, and behaves like an atom (read/write with @deref and reset!). The form's "output" is computed from its fields and can take any shape.

2. A metadata system that encourages data-driven design & code re-use, while handling common concerns like validation, hints, and error messages to support a high quality UX. Forms should be "driven by data" but avoid impenetrable indirection - don't break "jump to source".

Minimal example:

(ns my-app.core 
  (:require [inside-out.reagent :refer [with-form]]))
  
(with-form [contact-info {:person/name ?name}]
  [:form {:on-submit (fn [e]
                       (.preventDefault e)
                       (js/alert (str "submitted: " @contact-info)))}
   [:input
    {:value @?name
     :on-change (fn [e] (reset! ?name (.. e -target -value)))
     :placeholder "Name:"}]])

Dev

1. with babashka installed, run bb dev.
2. open a REPl connection to the shadow process (port is in .shadow-cljs/nrepl.port)
3. eval (start) in dev/dev.clj to build the notebook in dev/inside_out/notebook.clj and live-reload changes.