Cocoon like library for Phoenix to manage nested forms?

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Or alternatively some tutorial on creating dynamic nested forms in Phoenix, thank you.

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I thought the HTML5 spec does not allow for nested forms?!? Whaaaa? o.O

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It’s not actually nested forms… but a bunch of js black magic in such a way it dinamically add more fields to a form that represents a has_many relation.

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Well on the server side isn’t that just the inputs_for/4 in Phoenix.Html.Form? Just Enum.map with that…

Although no clue what that has to do with Phoenix if talking about the client-side, use whatever you want to there (or pass it back to the server and back again using Drab or Unpoly.js or whatever too), the front-end is back-end agnostic so no clue what a ruby thing would be all about. ^.^;

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Try VueJs. Dynamic forms are effortless, and sending data to the sever as json is trivial

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Exactly! Front-end is agnostic towards the back-end. ^.^

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I have not found any tutorial on dynamic forms with Vue.js yet, maybe you have some resource to share on the topic or an example app. Thanks.

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Does formex do what you want? Here is an example of a collection of forms.

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Yeah… I was just explaining what the gem does.

Why doesn’t people suggest Elm… it’s functional, it’s beautiful, and has all the original ideas people from Vue.js and Redux inspired from… :cry: :cry::cry:

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Because it’s hard to interoperate with Javascript libraries and VueJS comes with with ready-to use components you can just import from NPM (some of which might be quite compelx and tedious to implement on your own).

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JS interop is pretty straight foward, it’s just another subscription thing like doing a http request… the difference is that instead of creating decoders you create ports… but anyway, i was just whining about it. :stuck_out_tongue:

I dont wanna digress that much on the matter, but I hope someday people will value the safeties Elm provides than “speed on finishing” things