React Hook Form

Build around four decisions: ownership, schema tree, adapter, and baseline. RHF evidence is the invocation boundary; an ordinary React form request does not itself justify introducing the library.

Process

1. Establish the form contract

Inspect the installed RHF, React, resolver, schema, data-fetching, and UI-library versions before writing code. Identify:

• create or edit form;
• submitted value shape and API payload shape;
• client snapshot or live server-data ownership;
• native input contracts versus controlled adapters;
• conditional, array, or wizard branches;
• stable v7 APIs versus installed v8 APIs.