Utilizing React Hook Forms alongside MUI TextField components has been a productive challenge for me. I've been able to successfully fetch data from Firestore and aim to prefill the form with this retrieved information.
Although I am employing useForm with default values, I'm still navigating through some uncertainties in its application. While utilizing a spread operator helped populate certain fields with data, I am actively seeking a method to destructure the eventData as an object so that I can seamlessly match the fields with the fetched Data.
Below is a snippet of the code:
const [event, setEvent] = useState('')
const { register, handleSubmit, errors, reset } = useForm({
resolver: yupResolver(schema),
defaultValues: {...event}
})
// Retrieving data to prefilled the form
useEffect(() => {
getEvent(storyId, eventId, setEvent)
reset(event)
}, [reset])
Here's an example of a TextField:
<TextField
variant="outlined"
margin="normal"
fullWidth
id="date"
label="date"
name="date"
autoComplete="date"
type="date"
autoFocus
inputRef={register}
error={!!errors.date}
helperText={errors?.date?.message}
/>
Upon confirmation, the data object does indeed arrive...https://i.sstatic.net/oBWaZ.png
However, what ends up on the form is...https://i.sstatic.net/ixrTR.png
It's evident that while some data populates the form, there are style issues such as non-shrinking MUI labels leading to readability concerns. Furthermore, due to the absence of destructuring the eventData, complex data formats like dates and geopoint coordinates are left unfilled.
I've also raised a few queries:
- How can I ensure that my React component sets the data before React-hook-form initializes an object? Is using reset the best practice for this?
- Is there a way to make the MUI label shrink when the form is filled with data?
- What technique can be employed to effectively destructure the eventData and integrate it into the form?