Countable VS Formtastic

Compare Countable vs Formtastic and see what are their differences.

Countable

Add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element. (by RadLikeWhoa)

Formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
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Countable Formtastic
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1,641 5,195
- 0.0%
0.0 4.8
about 2 years ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Countable

Posts with mentions or reviews of Countable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-09-29.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    Say we have received a request from our blog editor: when writing a post, he would like to see the number of words directly in the input form. As you know, the world of JavaScript has libraries for everything, and there is one for our task too: Countable.js. Let's take the standard input for text (textarea) and extend it with a word counter.

Formtastic

Posts with mentions or reviews of Formtastic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-09-29.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    All the parameters required to draw the form (including object and method) are passed to #initialize defined in the module Formtastic::Inputs::Base. The #to_html method is responsible for rendering the input.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Countable and Formtastic you can also consider the following projects:

Garlic.js - Automatically persist your forms' text and select field values locally, until the form is submitted.

Simple Form - Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

@bepasquet/dynamic-form

Rails Bootstrap Forms - Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.

stretchy - Form element autosizing, the way it should be

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

form - jQuery Form Plugin

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

card - :credit_card: make your credit card form better in one line of code

Abracadabra

Lean-Mean-Drag-and-Drop - Drag&Drop Sorting and Reordering script for complex nested structures

ComfyBootstrapForm - Rails form builder for Bootstrap 4 markup that actually works!