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TanStack•6mo ago
genetic-orange

Custom ConditionalField

I am trying to simplify the way i handle conditional fields. For example i have a role field which can be set to either "User" | "Admin".
If "Admin" is set a new required field reason should appear. I have seen approaches where users add an onChange listener to the field role and it works fine. However this is a simple usecase. My actual use case is a big multi step form where the field might be rendered somewhere completely different. I generally don't like separating logic (In this case the listener) and rendering (of the field in some other subform later). I endeavered to replicate the listener approach with the help of form.Subscribe and came up with a simple custom form.ConditionalField: 
type ConditionFn = (
  // this does work however i lose typesafety when using it.
  // <form.ConditionalField condition={(state) => state.values. <- no type completion
  state: Parameters<
    NonNullable<
     Parameters<ReturnType<typeof useFormContext>['Subscribe']>[0]['selector']
    >
  >[0]
) => boolean;

function ConditionalField({
  name,
  children,
  condition,
}: {
  name: string; //<- How to type this
  children: React.ReactNode;
  condition: ConditionFn;
}) {
  const form = useFormContext();
  return (
    <form.Subscribe selector={condition}>
      {(isShown) => {
        useEffect(() => {
          if (!isShown) {
            form.deleteField(name);
          }
        }, [isShown]);
        if (!isShown) {
          return null;
        }
        return children;
      }}
    </form.Subscribe>
  );
}

export const { useAppForm, withForm } = createFormHook({
  fieldComponents: {
    TextField,
    SelectField,
  },
  formComponents: {
    ConditionalField,
  },
  fieldContext,
  formContext,
});
type ConditionFn = (
  // this does work however i lose typesafety when using it.
  // <form.ConditionalField condition={(state) => state.values. <- no type completion
  state: Parameters<
    NonNullable<
     Parameters<ReturnType<typeof useFormContext>['Subscribe']>[0]['selector']
    >
  >[0]
) => boolean;

function ConditionalField({
  name,
  children,
  condition,
}: {
  name: string; //<- How to type this
  children: React.ReactNode;
  condition: ConditionFn;
}) {
  const form = useFormContext();
  return (
    <form.Subscribe selector={condition}>
      {(isShown) => {
        useEffect(() => {
          if (!isShown) {
            form.deleteField(name);
          }
        }, [isShown]);
        if (!isShown) {
          return null;
        }
        return children;
      }}
    </form.Subscribe>
  );
}

export const { useAppForm, withForm } = createFormHook({
  fieldComponents: {
    TextField,
    SelectField,
  },
  formComponents: {
    ConditionalField,
  },
  fieldContext,
  formContext,
});
As stated in above example i loose typesafety of the condition function and name prop. How can i correctly type it?
4 Replies
genetic-orange
genetic-orangeOP•6mo ago
In a perfect world i would also wrap form.AppField and pass the name property through correctly aswell. however the form object returned by useFormContext doesn't have the AppField component
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•6mo ago
can you put tsx so your code example gets more readable? 
```tsx
```tsx
genetic-orange
genetic-orangeOP•6mo ago
genetic-orange
genetic-orangeOP•6mo ago
seems like for fieldComponents i can use the generic of useFieldContext<string>() to manually bridge this type gap. But formComponents/useFormContext has no way to provide a generic type.

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