Concepts

Values and Raw Values

Zod schemas parse an input value and may return an output value of a different type.

To support this well, @jcoreio/zod-forms stores both input and output values in form state.

The API refers to input values as "raw values" and output values as "values".

Path arrays

A path array is an array representation of the path to a value. For example ['foo', 0, 'bar'] represents the value at values.foo[0].bar.

Pathstrings

A pathstring is a string containing an idiomatic JS property path expression. For example, 'foo[0].bar' represents the value at values.foo[0].bar.

You may use strings with escape characters inside brackets like ["\"hello world\""].