Platform agnostic forms

[timvandam]

Hi! I love the DX of conform with remix, and would like to use it outside of web-based React. However, I am currently working in two different environments where working work conform is near-impossible because they are not web/html-based or because I am must use form components that do not expose fields like id. I think the main bottleneck here is the fact that there is no id field, which conform relies on. Would you be open to the idea of making conform platform-agnostic? For instance by using react context instead of form ids. Aside from this I think there is not much else that would be required - equivalents for getFormProps in other languages would be easy for users to make themselves etc

[edmundhung]

It is not impossible but it would be quite hard to justify whether the complexity to re-implement HTML form and the corresponding DOM APIs worth the effort. This will includes:

• Associating form elements based on the hierarchy or form id (e.g. form.elements includes references to all input elements. You can also find the corresponding form element through inputElement.form)
• Ability to trigger a form submission programmatically (e.g. inputElement.form.requestSubmit(submitter))
• Ability to modify a input element programmatically (e.g. inputElement.value = 'value to be updated')
• Construct the form value based on the hierarchy of all input elements just by referring to the form (e.g new FormData(formElement))
• Respect the submitter (button that trigger the submission) and adjust the form data based on its name and value (for the intent buttons)

It would be fun to explore this one day but it's unlikely a priority for me until the project is at a more mature stage.