Frontend Tips 5— Creating dynamic pages and forms with SurveyJS

Quique Fdez. Guerra
3 min readDec 9, 2020

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In this tip I want to share a tool that I’ve been using for more than 3 years and more than 5 real projects. I want to introduce to you SurveyJS.

In some projects we have to let the user to create different dynamic pages and forms, right now I was participating in 3 kinds of projects with these necessities:

  • Simple projects: Where the dynamic page “is modeled” in the backend, and we just receive a JSON that we have to render, after render it the user will be able to interact with a dynamic page or dynamic form.
  • Common projects: The same as Simple projects but also the want to let another kind of user to create these JSONs using fancy boxes.
  • Complex projects: All the things described above but also custom features like code editor, complex components, etc.

As developers, we can create all this features from scratch, or we can search for a tool that helps us to do the most of them automatically, and focus our effort into business features.

That was how a coworker introduced me SurveyJS, described by themselves as:

Build fully-customizable surveys,
forms and quizzes that seamlessly
integrate into your application

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Quique Fdez. Guerra

Director of Engineering at @PlainConcepts Romania Frontend Developer Lazy @Github contributor Happy @Helpdev_ founder Web @GoogleDevExpert