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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spking on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:16PM (#22609013)
Looks nice. A few years back my friend and I built formbucket.com to solve the same problem, and we quickly found out that keeping a lid on spam is a big challenge. How are you planning to deal with that?
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by ivanche on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:34PM (#22611847)
What problem is being solved here, exactly?
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spking on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:36PM (#22611852)
You are developing a static site and don't have a backend to process form submissions. A hosted endpoint solves that problem.
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by threentaway on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:24AM (#22613610)
Is a Lambda/Cloud Function/etc. really so complicated?
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spiderfarmer on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:56AM (#22614531)
While you can probably also find people like car mechanics that wonder why people think changing a V-belt is so complicated, this type of arrogance seems to be more prevalent among programmers.
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:06PM (#22611049)
reCAPTCHA?
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spking on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:06PM (#22611612)
Yes that can work fine for certain low-value/low-volume forms, but it's a bad UX to effectively put spam mitigation on your users.

It should really be handled on the backend (e.g. using https://akismet.com/development/api/).

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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by cultus on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:48PM (#22611955)
recaptcha v3 works invisibly in the background. There's buttons or pictures or anything.

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:42AM (#22613958)
Invisible if you have the full suite of tracking cookies.
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spking on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:54PM (#22612004)
Neat! Been a while since I have been in the forms "world" and looked at recaptcha, thanks for sharing.
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by mixmastamyk on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:12PM (#22612588)
Goodbye privacy. (Even more than normal)
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by eteos on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:45AM (#22614475)
Yes, it's neat in the sense of seamless (privacy violation) integration.
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Re:Airform: Functional HTML forms for front-end developers by spiderfarmer on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:57AM (#22614535)
Not if you use Safari.
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