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...
However, what ends up on the form is...
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?