ShapeForm vs Simple Form

Simple Form vs ShapeForm: What are the differences?

What is Simple Form? Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup. It aims to be as flexible as possible while helping you with powerful components to create your forms. The basic goal is to not touch your way of defining the layout, letting you find the better design for your eyes.

What is ShapeForm? A form library that uses JSON schema and works with Redux. It is originally a part of the TakeShape React web client. It is a form library that uses JSON schema and works with Redux. It is useful for async validation and data normalization.

Simple Form and ShapeForm belong to "Web Forms" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Simple Form are:

• Flexible
• Forms made easy for Rails
• No opinion on markup

On the other hand, ShapeForm provides the following key features:

• JSON Schema validation
• Nested Object / Array support with Drag and Drop
• Pure components for fast rendering even with large forms

Simple Form and ShapeForm are both open source tools. It seems that Simple Form with 7.45K GitHub stars and 1.24K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ShapeForm with 258 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks.