ra-json-schema-form

react-admin ≥ 5.9.0

Building forms out of a JSON schema.

Test it live in the Enterprise Edition Storybook.

Installation

npm install --save @react-admin/ra-json-schema-form
# or
yarn add @react-admin/ra-json-schema-form

Tip: ra-json-schema-form is part of the React-Admin Enterprise Edition, and hosted in a private npm registry. You need to subscribe to one of the Enterprise Edition plans to access this package.

Usage

If you have a JSON Schema description of your form based on react-jsonschema-form, you can use the <JsonSchemaForm> component to render it.

For instance, to generate the following form:

json schema form

Configure the <Edit> view with a <JsonSchemaForm> child as follows:

import { Edit } from 'react-admin';
import { JsonSchemaForm } from '@react-admin/ra-json-schema-form';

const CustomerEdit = () => (
    <Edit>
        <JsonSchemaForm
            schema={{
                type: 'object',
                properties: {
                    id: { type: 'number' },
                    first_name: { type: 'string', title: 'First name' },
                    last_name: { type: 'string', minLength: 3 },
                    dob: { type: 'string', format: 'date' },
                    sex: { type: 'string', enum: ['male', 'female'] },
                    employer_id: { type: 'number' },
                    occupations: {
                        type: 'array',
                        items: {
                            type: 'object',
                            properties: {
                                name: { type: 'string' },
                                from: { type: 'string', format: 'date' },
                                to: { type: 'string', format: 'date' },
                            },
                        },
                    },
                },
                required: ['id', 'last_name', 'employer_id'],
            }}
            uiSchema={{
                id: { 'ui:disabled': true },
                employer_id: {
                    'ui:widget': 'reference',
                    'ui:options': {
                        reference: 'employers',
                        optionText: 'name',
                    },
                },
            }}
            onChange={change =>
                process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test' &&
                console.log('changed', change)
            }
            onError={error =>
                process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test' && console.log('error', error)
            }
        />
    </Edit>
);

import { Edit } from "react-admin";
import { JsonSchemaForm } from "@react-admin/ra-json-schema-form";

const CustomerEdit = () => (
    <Edit>
        <JsonSchemaForm
            schema={{
                type: "object",
                properties: {
                    id: { type: "number" },
                    first_name: { type: "string", title: "First name" },
                    last_name: { type: "string", minLength: 3 },
                    dob: { type: "string", format: "date" },
                    sex: { type: "string", enum: ["male", "female"] },
                    employer_id: { type: "number" },
                    occupations: {
                        type: "array",
                        items: {
                            type: "object",
                            properties: {
                                name: { type: "string" },
                                from: { type: "string", format: "date" },
                                to: { type: "string", format: "date" },
                            },
                        },
                    },
                },
                required: ["id", "last_name", "employer_id"],
            }}
            uiSchema={{
                id: { "ui:disabled": true },
                employer_id: {
                    "ui:widget": "reference",
                    "ui:options": {
                        reference: "employers",
                        optionText: "name",
                    },
                },
            }}
            onChange={(change) => process.env.NODE_ENV !== "test" && console.log("changed", change)}
            onError={(error) => process.env.NODE_ENV !== "test" && console.log("error", error)}
        />
    </Edit>
);

<JsonSchemaForm> initializes the form with the current record, and renders it like <SimpleForm> does.

It expects a schema prop describing the expected data shape, and a uiSchema prop describing the UI.

<JsonSchemaForm> is a wrapper around JsonSchema Form's <Form> component, so please refer to JsonSchema Form's documentation for detailed usage.

UI Widgets

<JsonSchemaForm> comes with the following UI widgets:

For boolean fields:

checkbox (default)
radio
select

For string fields:

text (default)
textarea
password
color

The built-in string field also supports the JSON Schema format property, and will render an appropriate widget accordingly:

email: An input[type=email] element is used;
uri: An input[type=url] element is used;
data-url: By default, an input[type=file] element is used; in case the string is part of an array, multiple files will be handled automatically .
date: By default, an input[type=date] element is used;
date-time: By default, an input[type=datetime-local] element is used.

For number and integer fields:

text (default)
updown
range
radio

ra-json-schema-form comes with the an additional UI widget for string fields: reference. It's the equivalent of react-admin's <ReferenceInput> component. It fetches the foreign key, and uses a relationship to populate the list of options.

Specify the reference, optionText, and other options through the ui:options UI schema directive:

import { Edit } from 'react-admin';
import { JsonSchemaForm } from '@react-admin/ra-json-schema-form';

const CustomerEdit = () => (
    <Edit>
        <JsonSchemaForm
            schema={{
                type: 'object',
                properties: {
                    id: { type: 'number' },
                    employer_id: { type: 'number' },
                },
            }}
            uiSchema={{
                employer_id: {
                    'ui:widget': 'reference',
                    'ui:options': {
                        reference: 'employers',
                        optionText: 'name',
                    },
                },
            }}
        />
    </Edit>
);

import { Edit } from "react-admin";
import { JsonSchemaForm } from "@react-admin/ra-json-schema-form";

const CustomerEdit = () => (
    <Edit>
        <JsonSchemaForm
            schema={{
                type: "object",
                properties: {
                    id: { type: "number" },
                    employer_id: { type: "number" },
                },
            }}
            uiSchema={{
                employer_id: {
                    "ui:widget": "reference",
                    "ui:options": {
                        reference: "employers",
                        optionText: "name",
                    },
                },
            }}
        />
    </Edit>
);

I18N

<JsonSchemaForm> passes all labels, descriptions and errors to react-admin's translate function. You can translate the form by providing custom translations via your i18nProvider.

CHANGELOG

v5.1.1

2025-07-28

Remove MUI v7 support, currently unsupported by @rjsf/mui.

v5.1.0

2025-06-16

Make components compatible with Material UI v7

v5.0.0

2024-07-25

Upgrade to react-admin v5
Fix Form contexts setup
[TypeScript]: Enable strictNullChecks

v2.1.0

2024-02-22

Add i18n support

v2.0.1

2023-08-11

Fix ArrayField doesn't display the description

v2.0.0

2023-06-19

Upgraded to @rjsf/core version 5.8.1
Upgraded @rjsf/material-ui to @rjsf/mui version 5.8.1

Please follow their upgrade guide if you were using code from their packages.

v1.1.0

2023-05-24

Upgraded to react-admin 4.10.6

v1.0.2

2022-10-17

Fix ability to use JsonSchemaForm in a Create view

v1.0.1

2022-08-29

Added missing .npmrc file to package

v1.0.0

2022-08-25

First release