[SPIKE] Investigate the use of open source libraries about open-forms HOT 5 CLOSED

Yes, lets investigate some of the libraries that are out there as forms can be quite complex. I think, however that before doing so we need to sort out our functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. custom widgets and design criteria).

Form.IO

Based on what I've seen so far by fiddling with Form.IO trial:

• The editor is pretty neat and extensive. It's available as Angular component: https://github.com/formio/ngFormBuilder.
• The editor produces a JSON scheme which is to be rendered using one of their renderers.
• The most basic (vanilla) renderer (https://github.com/formio/formio.js) seems to produce Bootstrap formatted HTML which might be an issue as we're aiming towards a custom design.
• Using a custom framework can be problematic, according to the docs we should, in that case, contact Form.IO.
• Based on what i've seen a custom component relies on a premium plan.

I think Form.IO provides (and is aimed at) way more features than we need. Using just the editor (because of it's extensiveness and complexity) (nearly) forces us to use one of their renderers, witch might might be problematic when implementing our own design.

Rolling our own renderer would be a very time consuming practice since there are (too) many things/conditions to implement.

Conclusion

Because of the difficult match with the rest of the frontend I'm personally not that excited about using Form.IO for this specific project. That's based on the complex design requirements (what i've seen so far). It's definitely interesting but I just can't see a good fit here.

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Experimenting with formeo https://github.com/Draggable/formeo

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I think, however that before doing so we need to sort out our functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. custom widgets and design criteria).

I agree, so added to US.

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I created #9 and #10 to make small demo with these.

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FormIO it is.

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