define form api instance externally, consume via react
hello,
i'd like to define my store like
and still consume it inside of my react components the same way it would work if i used
my reason for wanting this is: i currently use zustand in my app to store websocket subscriptions and a separate zustand store for form state. within the websocket callback, i dispatch an action to change certain form fields in my form, without involving react renders or useEffect silliness. These actions are not user interactions but messages coming in from a websocket.
this is quite clean and avoids many problems with stale closures, dependency arrays etc, etc. But it seems this is more difficult to achieve with tanstack form. I whipped this up just now, and i think it would work https://gist.github.com/matthewdavi/2d0a6a185d85142b3538170bf6897f0e
for context, my app is fully client side with no SSR and makes heavy use of websockets for updating state
i'd like to define my store like
const formApi = new FormApi({...formOptions}) and still consume it inside of my react components the same way it would work if i used
useFormnew FormApiuseGlobalFormStateuseFormmy reason for wanting this is: i currently use zustand in my app to store websocket subscriptions and a separate zustand store for form state. within the websocket callback, i dispatch an action to change certain form fields in my form, without involving react renders or useEffect silliness. These actions are not user interactions but messages coming in from a websocket.
this is quite clean and avoids many problems with stale closures, dependency arrays etc, etc. But it seems this is more difficult to achieve with tanstack form. I whipped this up just now, and i think it would work https://gist.github.com/matthewdavi/2d0a6a185d85142b3538170bf6897f0e
for context, my app is fully client side with no SSR and makes heavy use of websockets for updating state
Gist
use a store defined at module scope with tanstack form - useFormApi.ts
