2. Formik Pros and Cons
Pros :
• You can use it with both React and React Native.
• It is free
• It is performant
• It is lightweight.
• It has excellent documentation.
• It is easy to pick up.
• It has bindings for popular UI frameworks like Ant design, Material UI, and Semantic UI.
Cons :
• Formik is not actively maintained.
• Perfomance (comparing to react-hook-form , react-hook-form perfom better than formik)
• Light weight (comparing to react-hook-form , react-hook-form light weight than formik)
3. React-hook-form Pros and Cons
Pros :
• It is free and open source.
• React Hook Form has no dependencies and a small bundle size
• It is easy to pick up.
• Good documentation
• It is performant
• You can use it in both React and React Native.
• It validates form fields out of the box.
• It is in active maintenance.
• It has an active community.
• You can integrate React Hook Form with UI libraries like Material UI.
Cons :
• React Hook Form uses React hooks. Therefore, you can't use it directly in class components.
4. Performance
(Render)
• React Hook Form isolates
input components from the
rest, preventing the whole
form to re-render for a
single field change.
• React-hook-form mount
very fast
5. Current Statistics :
React-hook-form Formik
Weekly Download 34,34,411 24,54,493
Size 18.78Kb (7.36Kb Zipped) 39.09Kb (13.21Kb Zipped)
Open Issues 4 510
Dependencies 0 7
Maintenance Actively Not Actively
Documentation Good Good
Community Support Good Good
Performance Good Good
6. conclusion
The Formik and React Hook Form also exist to simplify form management in React and React frameworks. Formik and
React Hook Form are popular, free, open-source, mature, and battle-tested. They are both excellent packages for form
management.
Both Formik and React Hook Form are solving the same problem but React Hook Form’s way of building a form with
uncontrolled components and hooks enable it to score a better performance result than Formik.
On the flip side, Formik is not actively maintained.
Additionally, Formik has a relatively larger bundle size than React Hook Form.
If you’re looking for a form building library, I recommend you to use React Hook Form. It’s better than Formik.
