We noted React Hook Form as an alternative to Formik. By defaulting to uncontrolled components, it delivers significantly better out-of-the-box performance, especially for large forms. React Hook Form is well-integrated with various schema-based validation libraries, including , and more. Additionally, React Hook Form offers a lot of flexibility, making it easy to integrate with existing codebases and other libraries. You can use React Hook Form with external controlled components libraries such as shadcn or . With strong performance, seamless integration and active development, it¡¯s a solid choice for building large form or form-heavy application.
Building forms for the web remains one of the perennial challenges of front-end development, in particular with React. Many of our teams working with React have been using Formik to make this easier, but some are now assessing as a potential alternative. React Hooks already existed when React Hook Form was created, so it could use them as a first-class concept: the framework is registering and tracking form elements as uncontrolled components via a hook, thereby significantly reducing the need for re-rendering. It's also quite lightweight in size and in the amount of boilerplate code needed.
