React & Modern Frontend (445 Qs)•Part 8: Advanced React Patterns, Portals & Performance (152 - 261)
What are the advantages of formik over redux form library?
Below are the main reasons to recommend formik over redux form library,
- The form state is inherently short-term and local, so tracking it in Redux (or any kind of Flux library) is unnecessary.
- Redux-Form calls your entire top-level Redux reducer multiple times ON EVERY SINGLE KEYSTROKE. This way it increases input latency for large apps.
- Redux-Form is 22.5 kB minified gzipped whereas Formik is 12.7 kB
Practical Code Example
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// Formik advantages over Redux Form:
// 1. Isolated component-level form state (no Redux store pollution)
// 2. Seamless integration with Yup schema validation