@dloizides/ui-forms

Themable, brand-agnostic React Native (RN-web) form components for the dloizides.com portfolio: Field, FormField, ChipSelector, FormSwitch. They read theme colours from the shared @dloizides/ui-feedback UI context (useUi) — mount one UiProvider / FeedbackUiProvider at your app root and these components pick up your theme automatically.

Install

npm install @dloizides/ui-forms @dloizides/ui-feedback

Peer dependencies: @dloizides/ui-feedback >= 1.1.0, react >= 18, react-native >= 0.74 (use react-native-web on web).

Usage

import { FormField, ChipSelector, FormSwitch } from '@dloizides/ui-forms';

<FormField label="Email" required error={errors.email} value={email} onChangeText={setEmail} />
<ChipSelector label="Plan" options={plans} value={plan} onChange={setPlan} />
<FormSwitch label="Email notifications" value={notify} onValueChange={setNotify} />

Field — label any control, not just a text input

FormField is hard-wired to a text input. For any other control — a dropdown, a date picker, a chip selector — wrap it in Field to get the identical label row, required mark, error line and bottom spacing. This is what keeps a dropdown aligned with the FormField next to it: without it the dropdown's box starts a label-row higher and the row loses its vertical rhythm.

import { Field } from '@dloizides/ui-forms';

<Field label="Currency" required error={errors.currency}>
  <ModalDropdown options={currencies} value={currency} onChange={setCurrency} />
</Field>

FormField and ChipSelector compose Field internally, so the label row can never drift out of alignment between them — there is exactly one label implementation in the kit.

To wire the error line into a custom control's own aria-describedby / invalid state, pass a function child — it receives { describedById, hasError } (describedById is undefined when there is no error):

<Field label="Country" error={errors.country}>
  {({ describedById, hasError }) => (
    <CountryPicker aria-describedby={describedById} hasError={hasError} value={country} onChange={setCountry} />
  )}
</Field>

The injected theme needs colors.{surface,text,textSecondary,border}, palette.primary['500'] and semantic.error['500'] — supplied via @dloizides/ui-feedback's provider. Without a provider the components fall back to a neutral default theme.

ChipSelector

<ChipSelector
  label="Plan"
  required
  error={errors.plan}
  options={plans}
  value={plan}
  onChange={setPlan}
  variant="outline"
/>

Its label, required mark, error line and bottom spacing come from Field. label is optional: with no label no label row is rendered, so it drops into a toolbar or filter bar cleanly.

Dense controls — SelectControl / TypeaheadControl / DateRangeControl

Promoted in 1.8.0 out of @dloizides/ui-tables' private filter bar, where they worked correctly for six portals and were exported to none — which is why the fleet grew 6 selects, 5 date fields and 2 typeaheads.

They are label-free by design. Compose them inside Field so there is ONE label implementation for every control rather than one per control:

<Field label="Status" labelVariant="control" containerStyle={{ marginBottom: 0 }}>
  <SelectControl
    accessibilityLabel={t('filters.statusName', 'Status', selectedLabel)}
    options={options}
    testID="filters-status"
    value={value}
    onChange={setValue}
  />
</Field>

labelVariant="control" is the 11/700/uppercase voice from FORMS.md — the voice for labels that are SCANNED (filter bars, toolbars) rather than READ.

Every string is pre-localized

This package never calls t. In particular SelectControl's accessibilityLabel must be composed by YOU and must carry the selection — "Status: Active", not "Status". The accessible name REPLACES the trigger's visible text for a screen reader, so naming it with the field alone silently hides what is selected.

Also exported: controlStyles (the tuned metrics), suggestOptions / isUnmatched (the typeahead's ranker), and the ControlOption / DateRangeValue types.

testIDs

form-field-input, chip-selector-chip-<value>, form-switch (overridable on FormSwitch).

License

MIT