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Why Form Validation Is Important

Milecia on January 24, 2019

I have a challenge for you. Go out to your favorite websites and see how many of them don't have a form anywhere on the site. I'll wait. If you act...
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Derek Rosenzweig

Check out my form validation library npmjs.com/package/js-formation . Haven't tried using it in a React/controlled components ecosystem yet but I'm eventually going to expand it to support more modern frontend programming practices. Take a look!

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Sunfire

If the bots weren't so attracted to the mailto: links, I'd never use a form.

Otherwise yes, validation is important at every level.

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Tech-Newbie-707

sheesh, I just went through alot to sign up to say "bots? attracted to mailto:links? please divulge" I have come to realize there are many "bots" on popular IG pages, and I help promote music, and of course the more someone "comments" on a post the more that post is seen. So I guess my question is "is there a way to use mailto: links to drive comments on a pages post that is sponsoring your page to get more likes and comments by obvious bots?" If that makes sense.