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Forms in Flutter without a framework on top. `advanced_forms` gives you typed field controllers, composable validation, and form-level state tracking.

> [!TIP]
> **Using Claude Code (or another agent that supports Agent Skills)?** This repo ships an [Agent Skill](./skills/advanced_forms/SKILL.md) that teaches your agent the full API, so it generates fields, validation, cross-field logic, and subforms idiomatically. To enable it, copy `skills/advanced_forms/` into your app's `.claude/skills/`, or into your global `~/.claude/skills/`.

## General overview

<img width="2206" height="1065" alt="Untitled-2026-08-17-2217-5" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/72f7812d-2420-489d-aec1-c28c8ae373b5" />
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- [MIGRATION.md](./MIGRATION.md) — coming from 0.1.x.
- `example/` — a runnable app where every pattern in these docs has a working screen. See [example/README.md](./example/README.md) for the screen guide.
- [API reference](https://pub.dev/documentation/advanced_forms/latest/) — the generated dartdoc, for every member and its edge cases.
- [`skills/advanced_forms/`](./skills/advanced_forms/SKILL.md) — an Agent Skill that teaches your agent the full API, so it generates fields, validation, cross-field logic, and subforms idiomatically. To enable it, copy the folder into your app's `.claude/skills/`, or into your global `~/.claude/skills/`.

## Rendering fields

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---
name: leancode-forms
description: Build Flutter forms with the leancode_forms package (AdvancedFormController, AdvancedTextFieldController, AdvancedFieldBuilder). Use whenever the user creates a form, adds or edits form fields, wires validation (sync, async, or cross-field), builds dropdowns/checkboxes/multi-selects/sliders bound to field controllers, handles submit buttons or server-side errors, or works with subforms in a project that depends on leancode_forms — even if they never say the word "form".
name: advanced_forms
description: Build Flutter forms with the advanced_forms package (AdvancedFormController, AdvancedTextFieldController, AdvancedFieldBuilder). Use whenever the user creates a form, adds or edits form fields, wires validation (sync, async, or cross-field), builds dropdowns/checkboxes/multi-selects/sliders bound to field controllers, handles submit buttons or server-side errors, or works with subforms in a project that depends on advanced_forms — even if they never say the word "form".
---

# leancode_forms
# advanced_forms

Typed form controllers for Flutter, no framework on top. Everything is `ChangeNotifier` + `ValueListenable` from the SDK. One import: `package:leancode_forms/leancode_forms.dart`.
Typed form controllers for Flutter, no framework on top. Everything is `ChangeNotifier` + `ValueListenable` from the SDK. One import: `package:advanced_forms/advanced_forms.dart`.

The model in one paragraph: a **form controller** (`AdvancedFormController`) owns **field controllers** (`AdvancedFieldController<T, E>`). `T` is the value type, `E` is *your* error type (`E extends Object`, never nullable — `null` means "no error"). Plain `String` errors are fine; an enum or sealed class scales better. Widgets subscribe to one field each via `AdvancedFieldBuilder`; the form aggregates tree-wide state (modified, validating, errors).

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## Quick start — a complete form

```dart
import 'package:leancode_forms/leancode_forms.dart';
import 'package:advanced_forms/advanced_forms.dart';

enum SignupError { required, tooShort }

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