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React bootstrap 5 form-How to create React forms

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By Emmanuel Chinonso

Web Developer

How to create beautiful React Bootstrap 5 forms.

React Bootstrap forms are input-based components that are designed to collect user data. Used as a login, subscribe, or contact form, all can be easily customized. We can use these form builders to build any form of form out there.

While creating CDB, we were aware of their importance in almost every project, so we put a lot of effort to get them right.

Such constructions like predefined Form logins, Form registers, Form subscriptions or Form contacts, and other layout forms varying in their design are all at your disposal. Each of them offers a different type of functionality.

We will look at creating this responsive form login using a react library known as Contrast bootstrap 5.

Contrast, also known as CDBReact, is a react library which is an Elegant UI kit with full bootstrap support that has reusable components for building mobile-first, responsive websites and web apps.

To use the contact forms, you need to download the pro version here.

Prerequisites

The contact forms would be built using React, Bootstrap, and CDBReact. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of CDBReact, but the following are necessary:

  • Basic React Knowledge
  • JavaScript knowledge
  • Basic Bootstrap knowledge
  • NPM installed

The page will look like the image below

React Forms

Setup

First Check that you have the node installed. To do this, run the following command in your terminal.

Code

js
node - v;

This should show you the current version of the node you have installed on your machine. If you don’t have a node installed, download it here.

Installing node also installs npm on your PC, but you can still confirm using npm-v. Now that we have the node installed, we can start up our React project by going to the directory of our choice and running.

Code:

js
npx create-react-app signin-app

I named the project sign in-app, but you can use any name of your choice.

Install CDBReact

Now, we have to install CDBReact in our project

Run the following command to install CBDReact using NPM

js
npm install --save ./path-to-the-cdbreact-pro-tgz-file

Or using Yarn

js
yarn add ./path-to-the-cdbreact-pro-tgz-file

Note that we don’t need to install bootstrap or add it anywhere in our project as CDBReact does that for us upon installation.

React bootstrap form-Sign in form

Let us go ahead to create a file named signin.js which would contain our signin component. We will be writing our code here. Import the various components that we’ll be using for our signin.

Code:

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import React from "react";
import {
CDBInput,
CDBCard,
CDBCardBody,
CDBIcon,
CDBBtn,
CDBLink,
CDBContainer } from "cdbreact-pro";

In the code above, we imported the react from react, and we also imported

  • CDBInput is used to build the input component
  • CDBCard is used to build the card structure of the sign in
  • CDBCardBody used to build the body of the sign in
  • CDBIcon is a component that allows you to add icons to the sign in
  • CDBBtn is the component that is used to build buttons in the sign in
  • CDBLink is the component that is used to build links for the sign in
  • CDBContainer is a component that holds the entire components used in building the sign in components from contrast.

Code:

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const Forms = () => {
return (
<CDBContainer>
<CDBCard style={{ width: "30rem" }}>
<CDBCardBody className="mx-4">
<div className="text-center mt-4 mb-2">
<p className="h4"> Sign in </p>
</div>
<CDBInput material hint="E-mail" type="email" />
<CDBInput material hint="Password" type="password" />
<div
className="d-flex flex-wrap justify-content-center align-items-center"
>
<CDBInput type="Checkbox" />
<p className="m-0">Remember me</p>
<CDBLink to="#">Forgot Password ?</CDBLink>
</div>
<CDBBtn
color="dark"
className="btn-block my-3 mx-0" >
Sign in
</CDBBtn>
<p className="text-center">Not a member?
<CDBLink className="d-inline p-0" to="#">
Register
</CDBLink>
</p>
<p className="text-center"> or sign in with</p>
<div className="row my-3 d-flex justify-content-center">
<CDBBtn
color="white"
style={{ boxShadow: "none" }}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="facebook-f" />
</CDBBtn>
<CDBBtn
color="white"
className="m-0"
style={{ boxShadow: "none" }}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="twitter" />
</CDBBtn>
<CDBBtn
color="white"
style={{ boxShadow: "none" }}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="google-plus-g" />
</CDBBtn>
</div>
</CDBCardBody>
</CDBCard>
</CDBContainer>
);
};
export default Forms;

We created the sign-in form in the code above and included some styling in the different components to make them more appealing.

However, we must first render our component before we can see it displayed on our screen.

Code:

r
import './App.css';
import Forms from './signin';
import Reactdom from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom';
function App() {
return (
<Router>
<div className="App">
<Forms />
</div>
</Router>
);
}
export default App;

The final page should look like the image below

React Forms

React bootstrap form-Sign up form

The sign up form is used in several web apps to register for anything or even to recognize users on a platform. An example of such sign up form is the google form login.

Let's go ahead to create a file named signup.js which would contain our signup component. We will be writing our code here. Import the various signup components that we’ll be using.

Code:

r
import React from "react";
import {
CDBInput,
CDBCard,
CDBCardBody,
CDBIcon,
CDBBtn,
CDBLink,
CDBContainer } from "cdbreact-pro";

In the code above, we imported the react from react, and we also imported

  • CDBInput is used to build the input component
  • CDBCard is used to build the card structure of the sign in
  • CDBCardBody used to build the body of the sign in
  • CDBIcon is a component that allows you to add icons to the sign in
  • CDBBtn is the component that is used to build buttons in the sign in
  • CDBLink is the component that is used to build links for the sign in
  • CDBContainer is a component that holds the entire components used in building the sign in components from contrast.

Code:

r
const Forms = () => {
return (
<CDBContainer>
<CDBCard style={{ width: "30rem" }}>
<CDBCardBody className="mx-4">
<div className="text-center mt-4 mb-2">
<p className="h4"> Sign up </p>
</div>
<div className="form-row mb-n4">
<div className="col">
<CDBInput material hint="First name" type="text" />
</div>
<div className="col">
<CDBInput material hint="Last name" type="text" />
</div>
</div>
<CDBInput material hint="E-mail" type="email" />
<p className="text-muted text-center small mt-n4">
At least 8 characters and 1 digit
</p>
<CDBInput material hint="Password" type="password" />
<CDBInput material hint="Phone number" type="text" />
<p className="text-muted text-center small mt-n4">
Optional - for two step authentication
</p>
<div
className="d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center mt-4"
>
<CDBInput type="Forms" />
<p className="m-0">Subscribe to our newsletter</p>
</div>
<CDBBtn
color="dark"
className="btn-block my-3 mx-0"
>
Sign up
</CDBBtn>
<p className="text-center"> or sign up with</p>
<div className="row mb-3 d-flex justify-content-center">
<CDBBtn
color="white"
className="m-0"
style={{boxShadow:"none"}}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="facebook-f" />
</CDBBtn>
<CDBBtn
color="white"
className="m-0"
style={{boxShadow:"none"}}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="twitter" />
</CDBBtn>
<CDBBtn
color="white"
className="m-0"
style={{boxShadow:"none"}}
>
<CDBIcon fab icon="google-plus-g"/>
</CDBBtn>
</div>
<p className="text-center m-0">
Already have an account?
<CDBLink className="d-inline p-0" to="#">
Sign In
</CDBLink>
</p>
<hr/>
<p className="text-center">
By clicking <em>Sign up</em> you agree to our
<CDBLink className="d-inline p-0" to="#">
terms of service
</CDBLink>
</p>
</CDBCardBody>
</CDBCard>
</CDBContainer>
);
};
export default Forms;

In the code above, the different components are used to create the body of the signup contact form. We also included some styling and added social media contact on the signup page.

The next step is to render the signup form in our app.js file.

Code:

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import './App.css';
import Forms from './signup';
import Reactdom from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom';
function App() {
return (
<Router>
<div className="App">
<Forms />
</div>
</Router>
);
}
export default App;

The signup page should look like the image below.

React Forms

Newsletter subscription

The newsletter subscription page will house your contact information to help business owners easily reach their customers and subscribers. The page we are going to create will look like the image below.

React Forms

Install CDBReact

Now, we have to install CDBReact in our project. Run the following command to install CBDReact

js
npm install --save cdbreact

Or using Yarn

js
yarn add cdbreact

Let's go ahead to create a file named newsletter.js which would contain our signup component. We will be writing our code here. First, we will Import the various components that we’ll be using.

Code:

r
import React from "react";
import {
CDBInput,
CDBCard,
CDBCardBody,
CDBIcon,
CDBBtn,
CDBLink,
CDBContainer } from "cdbreact";

In the code above, we imported the react from react and we also imported

  • CDBInput is used to build the input component
  • CDBCard is used to build the card structure of the sign in
  • CDBCardBody used to build the body of the sign in
  • CDBIcon is a component that allows you to add icons to the sign in
  • CDBBtn is the component that is used to build buttons in the sign in
  • CDBLink is the component that is used to build links for the sign in
  • CDBContainer is a component that holds the entire components used in building the sign-in components from contrast.

Now, we are going to write the function that will display the newsletter subscription form.

Code:

r
const Forms = () => {
return (
<CDBContainer>
<CDBCard style={{ width: "30rem" }}>
<CDBCardBody className="mx-4">
<div className="text-center mt-4 mb-2">
<p className="h4">Subscribe</p>
</div>
<p className="text-center mt-4 font-weight-light">
Join our mailing list. We write rarely, but only the best content.
</p>
<CDBLink className="text-center p-0 font-weight-light" to="#">
See the last newsletter
</CDBLink>
<CDBInput material hint="Name" type="text" />
<CDBInput material hint="E-mail" type="email" />
<CDBBtn
color="dark"
className="btn-block my-3 mx-0" >
Subscribe
</CDBBtn>
</CDBCardBody>
</CDBCard>
</CDBContainer>
);
};
export default Forms;

We added some styling to the components of the newsletter contact form and links to the social media contact.

Code:

r
import './App.css';
import Forms from './newsletter';
import Reactdom from "react-dom";
import { BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom';
function App() {
return (
<Router>
<div className="App">
<Forms />
</div>
</Router>
);
}
Reactdom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

In the code above, we rendered the newsletter file in app.js. This doesn’t require a pro version.

The final page will look like this

React Forms

Conclusion

React Bootstrap 5 forms are known to be used in creating sign-in forms, sign-up forms, and newsletters, which you can see is easier and much faster to create using contrast and gives you a lot of options to include bootstrap features without having to install it.

Resources

CDBReact Contact Form Docs.

Link to code on github.

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