The Evolution of Web Forms Part-1 — From Plain HTML to AJAX
Modern React forms can feel unnecessarily complicated when you first encounter tools such as React Hook Form, Zod, resolvers, controlled inputs, refs, formState, and server-error handling.
Why do we need all of that?
Why not simply read the value from an input and send it to the server?
To understand why modern form libraries exist, we need to understand the problems developers faced before those libraries were created.






