WTForms vs django-remote-forms

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WTForms		django-remote-forms
	Project
5	Mentions	-
1,460	Stars	223
0.6%	Growth	0.0%
8.4	Activity	0.0
15 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Python	Language	Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

WTForms

Posts with mentions or reviews of WTForms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.

Best library for validating form/request/whatever data?
1 project | /r/learnpython | 27 Jul 2022

I know about WTForms. Are there similar packages that you would recommend?
Using HTML5 fields with WTForms
2 projects | /r/codehunter | 15 Mar 2022

I then ended up on the WTForms github page, and found that actually there is support for all the new HTML5 fields, but that these fields aren't imported by default. https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms/blob/master/wtforms/fields/html5.py Therefore instead of using
Flask_wtf custom validator RequiredIf not working with fieldlist / formfields
1 project | /r/flask | 16 May 2021

class RequiredIf(object): #validator which makes a field required depending on value of another field # Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8463209/how-to-make-a-field-conditionally-optional-in-wtforms # source: https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms/issues/623
Flask + Ajax Error: Dynamic SelectField shows "Not a valid choice"
1 project | /r/flask | 12 Apr 2021

https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms/blob/22e2cf97c65ed38911543d247ccb0fc2207e0da3/src/wtforms/fields/core.py#L564-L575
Pre-populate edit form from model with relationships
1 project | /r/flask | 15 Mar 2021

Yeah, you can populate it even on the frontend and it will work. There is a possible solution: https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms/issues/434#issuecomment-499400017

django-remote-forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-remote-forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning django-remote-forms yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WTForms and django-remote-forms you can also consider the following projects:

django-crispy-forms - The best way to have DRY Django forms. The app provides a tag and filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format while providing an enormous amount of capability to configure and control the rendered HTML.

Streaming multipart/form-data parser - Streaming (and fast!) parser for multipart/form-data written in Cython

marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.

Deform - A Python HTML form library.

django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.

flask-wtf - Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.

WTForms-JSON - Adds smart json support for WTForms. Useful for when using WTForms with RESTful APIs.

django-bootstrap4 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.