We noted React Hook Form as an alternative to Formik. By defaulting to uncontrolled components, it delivers significantly better out-of-the-box performance, especially for large forms. React Hook Form is well-integrated with various schema-based validation libraries, including Yup, Zod and more. Additionally, React Hook Form offers a lot of flexibility, making it easy to integrate with existing codebases and other libraries. You can use React Hook Form with external controlled components libraries such as shadcn or AntD. With strong performance, seamless integration and active development, it’s a solid choice for building large form or form-heavy application.
Building forms for the web remains one of the perennial challenges of front-end development, in particular with React. Many of our teams working with React have been using Formik to make this easier, but some are now assessing React Hook Form as a potential alternative. React Hooks already existed when React Hook Form was created, so it could use them as a first-class concept: the framework is registering and tracking form elements as uncontrolled components via a hook, thereby significantly reducing the need for re-rendering. It's also quite lightweight in size and in the amount of boilerplate code needed.
