TanStack Form 1.0: State management for forms with React, Angular, Vue & Co.

The TanStack team has released version 1.0.0 of TanStack Form, an open-source library for the state management of forms in web applications. Among other things, it is intended to stand out through type safety, performance and a framework-agnostic and headless approach. It addresses existing difficulties.

All-in-one solution for form management

The development team describes the motivation behind TanStack Form in detail on the project's website. According to them, most web frameworks do not offer a comprehensive solution for handling forms, which is why developers have to create their own implementation or fall back on less capable libraries. This leads to inconsistencies, poor performance and increased development time.

This is where TanStack Form comes in: it aims to provide an all-in-one solution for managing forms that is both powerful and easy to use. Features include reactive data binding and state management, complex validation and error handling, accessibility and responsive design, internationalization, and localization as well as cross-platform compatibility and custom styling.

There is also a comparison with other form management libraries on the TanStack Form website, which is currently being prepared and does not claim to be completely accurate.

Support for TypeScript and the most important front-end frameworks

The features of TanStack Form include “first-class” support for the TypeScript programming language, as the development team emphasizes. This includes auto-completion and the use of inferred types whenever possible. The focus on TypeScript should lead to fewer runtime errors, simplified code maintenance and an improved developer experience to create robust and type-safe forms that can scale.

TanStack Form 1.0 is ready for use in production and can handle the React, Vue, Angular, Solid and Lit frameworks. The development team provides examples of the respective use.

TanStack Form can be installed via npm:

$ npm i @tanstack/react-form
# oder
$ npm i @tanstack/vue-form
# oder
$ npm i @tanstack/angular-form
# oder
$ npm i @tanstack/solid-form
# oder
$ npm i @tanstack/lit-form

Further information on the first production-ready version of TanStack Form can be found in a blog entry. The source code of the MIT-licensed project is available on the release page on GitHub.

TanStack has already released other web development projects, including the type-safe TanStack Router for React and the state management tool TanStack Query, which is designed for React, Solid, Vue and Svelte and has overtaken Next.js in popularity in a recent React survey.

JavaScript conference by Heise: enterJS 2025

enterJS 2025 will take place on May 7 and 8 in Mannheim. The conference offers a comprehensive look at the JavaScript-supported enterprise world. The focus is not only on the programming languages JavaScript and TypeScript themselves, but also on frameworks and tools, accessibility, practical reports, UI/UX and security.

Highlights from the program:

• Modern React applications with TanStack
• "The input is not correct" - Implementing forms without barriers
• 4 critical anti-patterns in React/TypeScript development
• React: Single-page or full-stack application (workshop, May 6)

Tickets are available at an early bird price in the online store.

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