Robust Frontend Form Validation, inspired by Laravel Validation, Built for Simplicity of Use π
Facile (French word for "easy", pronounced faΒ·sil) is an HTML form validator that is inspired by Laravel's validation style and is designed for simplicity of use.
Note: This package does not include any polyfills. If you want to use in old environments, add this package to your project's config transpiling list.
npm i @FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator
# or
yarn add @FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validatorHTML:
<form>
<input data-rules="bail|required|number|between:1,10" />
</form>The rules for each field are separated with a pipe character (vertical line) |. In this example, we've assigned 4 rules for that input:
- bail
- required
- number
- between (with two arguments: 1 and 10)
JavaScript:
import { Validator, enLang as en } from '@FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator';
// Select the container element that contains the fields
const form = document.querySelector('form');
// Create an instance of Validator for the container element
const v = new Validator(form, {
lang: en,
});
form.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
// Call validate method to start validation
v.validate();
});
// Handle error-free validation
v.on('validation:success', () => {
alert('Nice! The form was validated without any errors');
});
// Handle failed validation
v.on('validation:failed', () => {
alert('Oops! There are some errors in the form.');
});Now every input with data-rules attribute in the form will be validated.
New in version 1.6
By default, the validation starts when the validate method is called. If you want to validate a field as soon as it changes (e.g. when user starts typing) you can set the value of onFieldChangeValidation option to true in the validator's options:
const v = new Validator(form, {
onFieldChangeValidation: true,
}By doing this, the validation starts for the field that being changed after 500ms delay. However, you can change this delay by setting onFieldChangeValidationDelay in the options:
const v = new Validator(form, {
onFieldChangeValidation: true,
onFieldChangeValidationDelay: 1000 // 1 Second
}- React.js
- Others soon...
When the validation starts, ends, succeeds or fails, there are easy ways to handle these events. We do this with the help of the Hooks. A hook is simply a function that you define to be executed when a particular event occurs.
There are five type of events that can be handled with the hooks:
To attach a hook to these events, use on method:
v.on(event_name, () => {
// This function will be executed when the respective event occurs.
});You can also attach those hooks in the config object:
const v = new Validator(form, {
// ...
on: {
'validation:success': () => {
alert('Success! Form validated with no errors');
},
'validation:failed': () => {
alert('failed.');
},
},
});As you might have guessed, this event will occur when the validation starts:
v.on('validation:start', (form) => {
// This function will be executed when the validation starts
});This event will occur when the validation ends, no matter if it was successful or not:
v.on('validation:end', (form, isSuccessful) => {
// This function will be executed when the validation ends
});This event will occur when the validation ends with no errors:
v.on('validation:success', (form) => {
// Do something after successful validation e.g. send the form-data to the server
});This event will occur when the validation ends while there are some errors in the form:
v.on('validation:failed', (form) => {
// Notify the user to fix the form
});This event will occur when the validation of a field was successful and no errors are thrown:
v.on('field:success', (form, field) => {
// Do something like add a success class to display the result
});This feature can be disabled by set the option renderSuccess to false while initialization in the config object:
const v = new Validator(form, {
renderSuccess: false,
});When a particular field has errors, you can handle the errors with this event:
v.on('field:error', (form, field, errors) => {
errors.forEach((error) => {
console.log(error.args);
console.log(error.message);
console.log(error.rule);
console.log(error.element);
});
});This is a good place to display errors in your own format. By default, the validator automatically shows error messages below each input. However, you can disable this feature by setting renderErrors option to false in the config object:
const v = new Validator(form, {
renderErrors: false,
});- Facile Validator
The field under validation (checkbox, radio) must be checked:
<input data-rules="accepted" />The field under validation must contain only alphabetic characters:
<input data-rules="alpha" />Some valid inputs:
- Hello
- français
- Ψ³ΩΨ§Ω
The field under validation must contain only alpha-numeric characters:
<input data-rules="alpha-num" />Some valid inputs:
- abc123
- abc
- 123
The field under validation must contain only alpha-numeric characters, dashes, and underscores:
<input data-rules="alpha-num-dash" />Some valid inputs
- abc-123
- abc_123
- abc123
- abc
- 123
Stops running validation rules for the field after the first validation failure:
<input data-rules="bail|required|number|between:1,10" />required rule will be processed and if it fails, other rules will not be processed.
The field under validation must be a number between the given range:
<input data-rules="between:1,10" />The numbers lower than 1 and higher than 10 are not accepted.
The field under validation must be a number with the given length:
<input data-rules="digits:10" />Only a number with the length of 10 is accepted (e.g. 1234567890)
The field under validation must be an email:
<input data-rules="email" />The field under validation must end with the given substring:
<input data-rules="ends-with:ies" />Only the words that end with ies (technologies, parties, allies, ...) are accepted.
The field under validation must be an integer (positive or negative):
<input data-rules="int" />You can also use integer rule.
This rule is used for multiple purposes.
In the combination with the number rule, the field under validation must be a number less than or equal to the given number:
<input data-rules="number|max:50" />Only a number less than or equal to 50 are accepted.
If max is used without number rule, the field under validation is considered as a string and then the field under validation must be a string with a maximum length of the given number:
<input data-rules="max:5" />Only strings with the length of 5 or less are accepted.
This rule is used for multiple purposes.
In the combination with the number rule, the field under validation must be a number greater than or equal to the given number:
<input data-rules="number|min:50" />Only a number greater than or equal to 50 will be accepted.
If min rule is used without number rule, the field under validation is considered as a string and then The field under validation must be a string with a minimum length of the given number.
<input data-rules="min:5" />Only strings with the length of 5 or higher will be accepted.
The field under validation can be empty:
<input data-rules="nullable|min:5" />min rule will not be processed unless the field is filled. Note that the rules order is important. In this example, if nullable rule comes after min rule, the validator first processes min rule and then nullable rule.
The field under validation must contain only numeric characters, dashes, and underscores:
<input data-rules="num-dash" />1000, 123-456, 123_456 are some valid inputs for this rule.
The field under validation must be a number:
<input data-rules="number" />New in version 1.1
The field under validation must match the given regular expression:
<input data-rules="regex:/^[0-9]+$/" />To handle the regex rule in a more convenient way, see #x-prefixed-rules.
The field under validation must not be empty:
<input data-rules="required" />This rule is used for multiple purposes.
In the combination with the number rule, the field under validation must be a number equal to the given number:
<input data-rules="number|size:1000" />Only 1000 is accepted.
If used without number rule, the field under validation is considered as a string and then the field under validation must be a string with the exact length of the given argument:
<input data-rules="size:5" />Only the strings with the length of 5 are accepted.
The field under validation must start with the given substring:
<input data-rules="starts-with:app" />Only the words that start with app (apple, application, append, ...) are accepted.
The field under validation must be in the list of the given arguments:
<input data-rules="in:red,green,blue" />Only red or green or blue are valid inputs.
in rule can also be used with a <select multiple> element. In this case, in rule should be used with array rule:
<select data-rules="array|in:1,3" name="names[]" multiple>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
</select>Only 1, 3 or both are accepted.
New in version 1.1
In some situations, passing the rule argument in HTML is not a good idea. For example for a complex argument for regex rule that can make the HTML code less legible:
<input data-rules="regex:/^([0-9]{5})-([0-9]{5})$/" />So instead of passing rules arguments in HTML, you can pass them in JavaScript code with the help of X-Prefixed Rules. All available rules can be prefixed with an x-. For example the regex rule can be written as x-regex. In this situation, the only argument for these rules points a key in xRules object in the configuration object:
<input data-rules="x-regex:zipcode" />const v = new Validator(form, {
xRules: {
zipcode: /^([0-9]{5})-([0-9]{5})$/,
},
});In this example, the final argument for x-regex rule is the value of zipcode property in xRules object.
New in version 1.12.0
Previously, if an x-regex rule failed, a generic error message 'The value doesn't match the pattern' was displayed. For more convenience, you can now show your own error messages based on arbitrary conditions. To do so, use the x-regex rule like the below (see password):
const v = new Validator(form, {
xRules: {
// Simple x-regex rule with pre-defined error
zipcode: /^([0-9]{5})-([0-9]{5})$/,
// An x-regex rule with customized errors
password: {
value: /^(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[@#$%^&*]).{8,}$/,
errorMessage: (field) => {
if (field.value.length < 8) {
return 'Password must be at least 8 characters';
}
if (!/[A-Z]/.test(field.value)) {
return 'Password must contain at least one uppercase letter';
}
if (!/[a-z]/.test(field.value)) {
return 'Password must contain at least one lowercase letter';
}
if (!/[@#$%^&*]/.test(field.value)) {
return 'Password must contain at least one special character';
}
return 'My custom error message';
},
},
},
});Open the demo and play with the password field.
When instantiating the Validator class, importing a language is mandatory. This allows you to keep the bundle size as minimal as possible by including only the desired language:
import { Validator, enLang as en } from '@FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator';
const form = document.querySelector('form');
const v = new Validator(form, {
lang: en,
});Facile Validator currently supports these languages by default:
- English (import with
enLang) - Persian (import with
faLang) - Italian (import with
itLang) (Since v1.8) - Chinese (import with
zhLang) (Since v1.8) - French (import with
frLang) (Since v1.8) - German (import with
deLang) (Since v1.8) - Czech (import with
csLang) (Since v1.9) - Dutch (import with
nlLang) (Since v1.10)
We welcome any contributions for other languages. The languages are located in this path. Just copy any file, translate it into your own language and then make a PR.
Use createLang function to define your own error messages:
import { Validator, enLang as en, createLang } from '@FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator';
const myLang = createLang({
required: 'Please fill out this field',
accepted: 'Please accept this field',
});
const v = new Validator(form, {
lang: myLang,
});Note that in this case you should define a message for each existing rule. Although, to override only certain messages, pass the original language object:
import { Validator, enLang as en, createLang } from '@FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator';
const myLang = createLang({
...en,
required: 'Please fill out this field',
accepted: 'Please accept this field',
});New in version 1.8.0
You can change the current language on runtime by using setLanguage method from the validator:
import { Validator, enLang as en, frLang as fr } from '@FojleRabbiRabib/facile-validator';
const v = new Validator(form, {
lang: en,
});
// e.g. onclick
v.setLanguage(fr);MIT