# dobtco/formbuilder

[Needs Maintainer] Formbuilder is a small graphical interface for letting users build their own webforms.

Repository: https://github.com/dobtco/formbuilder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dobtco-formbuilder
Homepage: http://dobtco.github.io/formbuilder/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-10-17T21:47:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4740, "days_push": 1781, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1823, forks 477 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.193450+00:00)

## What it is
Formbuilder is a lightweight JavaScript graphical interface that lets end users build their own webforms, similar to Wufoo or Google Forms but embeddable in your application. It handles only the client-side builder, outputting a structured JSON representation of the form; saving, server-side rendering, and response storage are left to the developer.

## Use cases
- let users build custom webforms in my app
- embed a drag-and-drop form builder like Wufoo
- generate JSON form definitions from a visual editor
- add a lightweight Google Forms-style builder to my product
- create customizable survey forms client-side

## When to choose
- you need an embeddable client-side form builder UI
- you want full control over server-side rendering and response storage
- you're on Rails and can pair it with formbuilder-rb

## When to avoid
- you need a complete form solution with backend, rendering, and response storage out of the box
- you need a maintained project with active development
- you want a modern framework (React/Vue) component

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, form-handling, frontend-framework, serialization
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: form-builder, drag-and-drop, backbone, -output, webforms, javascript

## Member repositories
- dobtco/formbuilder (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.193450+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:19:44.692844+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dobtco/formbuilder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.193450+00:00, sha 4c4ec55cb0c0)
  - homepage: http://dobtco.github.io/formbuilder/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:58:44.996084+00:00, sha 54398404fe7b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.