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Comment on Ask HN: What do you expect from a form builder?

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- Managed everything, not just the form builder WYSIWYG, but also the hosted form itself, confirmation emails, reports browser, etc. Like Google Forms / SurveyMonkey / Alchemer.

- Easy integration with JS frameworks and styling. If you're targeting devs, I'd love to be able to import your package on npm and have a basic form ready to go, but each component should be customizable and styleable (like https://mui.com/material-ui/react-text-field/)

- Basically, I'd love to be able to use a WYSIWYG to compose the form, define validations, etc., but then be able to take that drop it into my existing React/Vue/Svelte frontend, and style it and modify components as necessary. But once they click "submit", then it sends it directly to your API with AJAX, the user gets a confirmation (both on-screen and via email), and then later on I can go to a hosted forms dashboard to see all the submissions, export them to a spreadsheet, ideally run some basic analytics on them, etc.

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