Overview
The Laravel Form Components is a deprecated package that provided a set of Blade components to quickly build forms with Tailwind CSS v1, Tailwind CSS v2, Bootstrap 4, and Bootstrap 5. The package supported validation, model binding, default values, translations, included default vendor styling, and was fully customizable. However, it is important to note that it doesn’t support Livewire 3 and Tailwind 3 and will not be maintained anymore.
Features
- Components for input, textarea, select, multi-select, checkbox and radio elements.
- Support for Tailwind v1 with Tailwind CSS Custom Forms.
- Support for Tailwind v2 with Tailwind Forms.
- Support for Bootstrap 4 Forms.
- Support for Bootstrap 5 Forms.
- Component logic independent from Blade views.
- Bind a target to a form for default values (model binding).
- Support for Laravel Livewire v2.
- Support for Spatie’s laravel-translatable.
Installation
You can install the Laravel Form Components package via composer. Detailed installation instructions for the deprecated package are available in the original content.
Summary
The Laravel Form Components package provided a convenient way to create forms with various features and support for different CSS frameworks. Although now deprecated and not maintained, it offered valuable functionality such as model binding, validation, translations, and customization options. However, users should be aware of its limitations regarding Livewire 3 and Tailwind 3 support.