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Stop Struggling with Forms in React - 4 Smart Ways to Handle Them

Werliton Silva on May 28, 2025

Forms are an essential part of any web application. In React, there are several ways to manage forms, from manual control to powerful libraries. In...
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Michael Liang

Great post.

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Werliton Silva

Thanks bro

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Dotallio

Great breakdown! React Hook Form made big forms so much easier for me, especially with those built-in validations - do you have a go-to for dynamic field arrays?

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Werliton Silva

yeh. I like so much React Hook Form. About you question, do you have an example?

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Dev King

I've been enjoying using Formik more. I found it simpler.

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yooket34

From fully manual to library-powered, React offers many ways to build forms.

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Werliton Silva

yes. for this I like so much React too

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Nathan Tarbert

Insane how much easier this makes form stuff, I’ve lost way too many hours to messy state bugs

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Werliton Silva

Yes. I'm too. many many hours. rssr

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MannyAI

Good job!

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Werliton Silva

Thank you!

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Dev King

Nice my friend