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Odejobi Abiola Samuel
Odejobi Abiola Samuel

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Why I Built Ctrovalidate: Rethinking Form Validation in JavaScript

🤔 Form Validation Is Everywhere… Yet Still Painful

Every web app has forms.
Every form needs validation.

Yet somehow, validation logic still ends up:

  • Scattered across files
  • Hard to read later
  • Tightly coupled to frameworks
  • Or bloated with unnecessary abstractions

After dealing with this repeatedly, I decided to build a small solution for myself — and that became Ctrovalidate.


🛠️ The Idea Behind Ctrovalidate

Ctrovalidate was built around a few simple principles:

  • Rules should read like rules
  • Validation should be predictable
  • Errors should be accessible by default
  • The library should stay out of your way

No magic. No heavy configuration. Just clear validation logic.


✨ What Ctrovalidate Tries to Do Well

  • 📦 Lightweight and framework-agnostic
  • 📖 Human-readable validation rules
  • ♿ Accessibility-conscious error handling
  • 🔌 Easy to plug into existing projects
  • 🧠 Simple mental model (great for learning & teaching)

It works with vanilla JavaScript and fits nicely into modern frontend setups.


📚 Docs, Examples & Demo

If you want to see how it works in practice:

👉 Documentation & Demo

https://ctrotech-tutor.github.io/ctrovalidate/


⭐ Open Source on GitHub

The project is fully open-source and still evolving:

👉 GitHub Repository

https://github.com/ctrotech-tutor/ctrovalidate

If you like the idea:

  • ⭐ Star the repo
  • 👀 Follow for updates
  • 🧪 Try it in a real project

🙏 Looking for Feedback

This project is still growing, and feedback matters a lot at this stage.

I’d especially love thoughts on:

  • API design
  • Missing validation rules
  • DX improvements
  • Accessibility edge cases

If you’ve ever built forms (which… we all have 😄), your input would be valuable.

Thanks for reading, and happy coding 🚀

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