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This form can be submitted & validated entirely without JS on the client :)
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| <form method="post" action="/submit-email-form" onSubmit={this.formSubmit}> |
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In a non-JS world the form will submit like a regular form would to /submit-email-form, but in a JS world React will capture it.
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A lot of people ask me how I would deal with forms in a Universal React world. When I say I'd just make it submit either on the server or in the client, they ask how to avoid writing it twice.
This PR shows a basic approach (there's plenty of room for improvement) where any logic around validating the form is in a universal module used on both the client and the server. You write:
POSTed to in a non-JS environmentNote that I won't merge this PR as I want to keep the basic repo as straightforward as it can be, but I hope this helps some people.
I'll blog more about this soon...