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The best Formily alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Formily, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Formily

A form library for React and Vue that handles complex and JSON-schema-driven forms.

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    React Hook Form

    Open source · MIT · ★ 44.9k

    A React library for building forms, handling their state and validation with hooks.

    Best for: React developers building forms with several fields; Teams that want form validation with a schema library like Zod or Yup

    Full review Formily vs React Hook Form
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    VeeValidate

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.3k

    A library for building and validating forms in Vue.js apps.

    Best for: Vue developers who need form validation without writing it from scratch; Teams building Vue 3 forms with synchronous or asynchronous rules

    Full review Formily vs VeeValidate
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    Ajv

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.9k

    A fast library that checks whether JSON data matches a schema, for Node.js and browsers.

    Best for: Node.js developers validating API request or response bodies; Front-end developers validating form or config data in the browser

    Full review Formily vs Ajv
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    VueUse

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.4k

    A large set of ready-made Vue 3 composable functions for common UI and browser tasks.

    Best for: Vue 3 developers who repeat common browser logic across projects; Teams building Vue apps with Vite, Nuxt, or Webpack

    Full review Formily vs VueUse
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    SoybeanAdmin

    Open source · MIT · ★ 15.2k

    A Vue 3 admin dashboard template with TypeScript, Vite, Pinia, Naive UI and UnoCSS.

    Best for: Developers starting a new internal admin or back-office web app with Vue 3; Teams that want TypeScript, linting and a monorepo structure already configured

    Full review
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    redux-form

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.5k

    A React library that stores HTML form state in a Redux store.

    Best for: React developers who already use Redux and want form state in the same store; Apps where parts of the UI far from the form (such as another route) need to read or change form values

    Full review Formily vs redux-form
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    Vant

    Open source · MIT · ★ 24.4k

    A Vue UI component library for building mobile web pages, MIT licensed.

    Best for: Teams building mobile-first web apps or H5 pages in Vue; Developers who want prebuilt mobile components with theming options

    Full review
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    WatermelonDB

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.8k

    A database library for React and React Native apps that loads data lazily and updates the UI when data changes

    Best for: React Native developers building apps with thousands or more records; Teams building offline-first apps that need to sync with their own backend

    Full review Formily vs WatermelonDB

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Formily. We don't take payment for placement.