Stop Using State for React Forms, There is a Much Better Way!

I totally agree, the “react way” of handling html forms is inefficient and hard to scale/maintain.

I spent a bit of time myself playing with **FormData** and form **validation** in react and I put together a solution that [I described here](https://hackernoon.com/implement-form-validation-in-react-without-any-libraries).

I used those principles to build a form submission/validation solution that we used in production on a number of projects.

Following the standards turns out to be very effective, after all there’s no need to reinvent the wheel every time a new library pops up and form handling makes no exception :)

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Alessio