# kevinchappell/formBuilder

A jQuery plugin for drag and drop form creation

Repository: https://github.com/kevinchappell/formBuilder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/formbuilder
Homepage: https://formbuilder.online
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: javascript, form-builder, jquery-plugin
Last push: 2026-08-09T12:22:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 78, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4260, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": 68, "gap_med": 31, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2711, forks 1420 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.813360+00:00)

## What it is
formBuilder is a jQuery plugin providing a drag-and-drop interface for building web forms entirely client-side. Its companion plugin formRender renders the created form templates, with JSON/XML data export and support for 35 languages.

## Use cases
- build forms with drag and drop in a browser
- let admins create custom form templates for a website
- render form templates created by users on the front-end
- add a visual form editor to a jQuery app
- create multilingual forms with translated field labels
- save and re-use form definitions as JSON or XML

## When to choose
- your app already uses jQuery and needs an embeddable form builder
- you need a fully client-side form editor with no backend dependency
- you want a mature plugin with many options, action methods, and translations
- you need to separate form building (admin) from form rendering (front-end)

## When to avoid
- your stack is React/Vue/Angular without jQuery and you prefer a native component
- you need server-side form processing or storage out of the box
- you want a full form backend with submissions, emails, and analytics
- you are starting a new project and want to avoid jQuery dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: form-handling, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, form-builder, drag-and-drop, form-render, client-side, translatable, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- kevinchappell/formBuilder (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.813360+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 2026-08-30T02:15:34.732527+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kevinchappell/formBuilder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.813360+00:00, sha 8e48bd22c493)
  - homepage: https://formbuilder.online (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:03.383048+00:00, sha 7770087a5fe5)
  - site_page: https://formbuilder.online/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:03.392883+00:00, sha da70df7ec885)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.