Last week I had the privilege of speaking at FrontEndNorth in Sheffield. The talk I gave was heavily based on the one I gave at JavaScript North East in November(with some obvious refinements) about the challenges posed to end users and developers when working with inline validation. I was able to share my experiences on both ends of the spectrum and how we can alleviate these challenges by using React along with some smart design decisions to prevent alienating users of the applications we build. Finally I shared some best practices about how to better design forms so attendees can use this knowledge when building out web forms in the future.
A lot of the concepts behind this talk are the basis of ConferizeForm* which is the library we’re using to build out our web forms in the next iteration of Conferize. This library will be Open Source in the near future, so stay tuned for an announcement about that!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kimb and the organisers behind FrontEndNorth for having me, and putting on a great conference. Secondly I would like to thank Conferize for permitting me to share some of our learnings and how we’ve been able to get around them.
I’ve posted a copy of my slides below for anyone interested.