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How to use Supabase with Formik for form handling?

Learn how to boost your form game by merging Supabase with Formik. Easy steps to streamline performance and better manage data. Optimize effortlessly!

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Overview

Form handling is key to getting user inputs right in any app. Dive into using Supabase and Formik for smooth form management. Supabase, an open-source Firebase alternative, pairs nicely with Formik, a tiny library that tackles the 3 biggest hassles: capturing form values, validation, and error messages. Follow along to set up Formik in your app, build a form with it, and hook that form up to Supabase for handling submitted data. If you're familiar with React and have a basic grasp of Supabase, you'll find this easier to digest.

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How to use Supabase with Formik for form handling?

Step 1: Install the Necessary Packages

First things first, let's get Formik installed. Just run this command:

npm install formik --save

Next up, we need Supabase. So, go ahead and install it with:

npm install @supabase/supabase-js --save

Step 2: Initialize Supabase in Your App

Now, let's bring Supabase into your app. You'll need to import and set it up using the keys from your Supabase dashboard:

import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'

const supabaseUrl = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_URL'
const supabaseAnonKey = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY'

export const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey)

Step 3: Set Up a Form with Formik

Alright, time to set up a form using Formik. You'll use the Form component to structure your input fields. For individual fields, use the Field component, and for error messages, ErrorMessage is your friend.

Here's a quick example:

import { Formik, Field, Form, ErrorMessage } from 'formik';

function MyForm() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>My Form</h1>
      <Formik
        initialValues={{ email: '', password: '' }}
        onSubmit={async values => {
          await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500));
          alert(JSON.stringify(values, null, 2));
        }}
      >
        <Form>
          <label htmlFor="email">Email</label>
          <Field id="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" />

          <ErrorMessage name="email" component="div" />

          <label htmlFor="password">Password</label>
          <Field id="password" name="password" type="password" />

          <ErrorMessage name="password" component="div" />

          <button type="submit">Submit</button>
        </Form>
      </Formik>
    </div>
  );
}

Step 4: Connect the Form to Supabase

Now, let's hook up that form to Supabase. In the onSubmit method of Formik, you'll use the supabase client to send the form data to your Supabase database. Check this out:

<Formik
  initialValues={{ email: '', password: '' }}
  onSubmit={async (values, { setSubmitting }) => {
    const { error } = await supabase.from('my_table').insert([values]);

    if (error) {
      console.log('Error: ', error);
    } else {
      console.log('Form submitted.');
    }

    setSubmitting(false);
  }}
>
//...
</Formik>

In this example, we're using the from('my_table').insert([values]) pattern to insert data into a Supabase table. Just replace 'my_table' with the actual name of your table in Supabase. Make sure your form fields match the column names in your Supabase table.

The 'error' object is there to help you handle any errors that pop up during the submit process, and 'setSubmitting' changes the form's submitting state, which can be used to give the user feedback.

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