API endpoint to generate and host JSON Forms

General
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Hello everyone, my team and I are building a tool that generates web forms from Figma designs (Weavely | Design & Publish Forms in Figma). One of our users asked about the possibility for us to open up our form-building API to requests containing JSON Forms. I’m wondering whether this is just an odd-ball request or whether other people could be helped by having a graphical editor combined with a form-building API?

PS: In case it isn’t clear, I’m not here to sell anything or have people try anything. Just genuinely curious :slight_smile:

Kind regards,
Florian

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Hi @myter,

The topic comes up from time to time. In fact we even published an own editor at some point, however it is now outdated.

You can also find some people of the community creating their own editors, see for example here and the editors linked on our community page.

I also know of specialized builders which are developed and deployed in-house in the respective communities, sadly those are not open source.

So overall there is definitely interest in having a graphical editor.

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I indeed already saw various graphical editors. But unless I’m mistaken these typically generate the schema/frontend code and don’t accept JSON Form schema’s as input and then generate and host the resulting web form ?

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Hi @myter,

Ah I see, you are talking about a hosted form service, like typeform.

One can certainly use JSON Forms to build such a service if you or someone else likes to. We’re leveraging JSON Schema which is a widely used standard to describe data and an optional JSON Forms specific UI Schema to declaratively specify the UI .