This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

JSON Forms React seed App

This seed demonstrates how to use JSON Forms with React in order to render a simple form for displaying a task entity.

It is based on create-react-app and only contains minor modifications.

• Execute npm ci to install the prerequisites. If you want to have the latest released versions use npm install.
• Execute npm start to start the application.

Browse to http://localhost:3000 to see the application in action.

File Structure

Let's briefly have a look at the most important files:

• src/schema.json contains the JSON schema (also referred to as 'data schema')
• src/uischema.json contains the UI schema
• src/index.js is the entry point of the application and sets up the redux store that contains the data, the JSON and the UI schema necessary for JSON Forms.
• src/App.js is the main React component and makes use of the JSON Forms Component in order to render a form.

The data schema defines
the structure of a Task: it contains attributes such as title, description, due date and so on.

The corresponding UI schema specifies controls for each property and puts them into a vertical layout that in turn contains two horizontal layouts.

Both the data schema and the UI schema are imported within index.js and are used to set up a redux store. We make use of a helper function exported by JSON Forms which expects the initial state. If you already have an existing redux store, you'll need to import the jsonforms reducer and add it to your store. Please refer to the tutorial for how to do this.

Setting up the store

const store = createStore(
  jsonformsReducer(),
  {
    jsonforms: {
      common: {
        data,
        schema,
        uischema
      },
      renderers: JsonForms.renderers,
      fields: JsonForms.fields
    },
  },
  applyMiddleware(thunk)
);

// initialize store
store.dispatch({
  type: Actions.INIT,
  data,
  schema,
  uischema,
});

// trigger initial validation
store.dispatch(Actions.validate());

We then use the Provider component provided by react-redux to provide the store to the App component and all its children.

ReactDOM.render(
  <Provider store={store}>
    <App />
  </Provider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
); 

Rendering our form

The App component is responsible for rendering our actual form. It does so by importing and using DispatchRenderer from @jsonforms/core. DispatchRenderer expects schema and uischema props which define the form to be rendered but if those are omitted, they will be pulled from the store which was provided via Provider previously.

Since we also like to display the actual data that is being edited we connect the App component to the store in order to extract the data from it.

Custom renderers

Please see our corresponding tutorial on how to add custom renderers.