# vform666/variant-form

A powerful form designer for Vue.

Repository: https://github.com/vform666/variant-form
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/variant-form
Homepage: http://www.vform666.com
Language: Vue
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: vuejs2, vue, form, designer, online-forms, element-ui, iview
Last push: 2024-11-26T10:08:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1805, "days_push": 645, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1995, forks 327 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:03.435481+00:00)

## What it is
Variant Form is a low-code, drag-and-drop form designer and renderer for Vue 2, built on Element UI. It lets developers visually design forms, run them dynamically at runtime, and export generated Vue SFC/HTML source code.

## Use cases
- build online forms with a drag-and-drop designer in Vue apps
- generate Vue component source code from visually designed forms
- render forms dynamically at runtime from JSON definitions
- create responsive forms for PC, tablet, and mobile layouts
- add custom validation logic and CSS styles to forms
- embed a form builder into an admin or low-code platform

## When to choose
- you need a visual form builder integrated into a Vue 2 project using Element UI
- you want to generate exportable Vue/HTML form code instead of hand-writing forms
- you need runtime dynamic form loading with complex interaction control

## When to avoid
- your project uses Vue 3 or React rather than Vue 2 (separate Vue 3 edition exists)
- you need a non-Element UI component library without customization
- you require a permissive open-source license, since the license is non-standard

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: form-handling, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: vue2, low-code, form-designer, drag-and-drop, element-ui, code-generation, visual-editor, web-server

## Member repositories
- vform666/variant-form (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.435481+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 2026-08-30T03:02:31.694062+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vform666/variant-form (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.435481+00:00, sha 37e956fb9c8c)
  - homepage: http://www.vform666.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:42:35.740773+00:00, sha cdac7a7673cc)
  - site_page: https://www.vform666.com/changelog.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:42:35.749700+00:00, sha 067e960b9137)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.