json-editor

A Vue 3 JSON Schema based form editor component. Edit JSON in UI form with JSON Schema and element-plus, with full TypeScript support.

Versions & Branches

本仓库通过不同分支维护多个 Vue 版本的发布。请根据你的 Vue 版本选择对应分支：

Branch	Version	Vue	UI Library	Status
main	3.x	Vue 3 (^3.5.0)	element-plus (^2.11.1)	✅ Active
master	2.x	Vue 2 (^2.7.16)	element-ui (^2.15.14)	🛠️ Maintenance
v1	1.x	Vue 2 (^2.5.17)	element-ui (^2.4.11)	⚰️ Legacy

• main 为当前默认分支，对应 npm 3.x（Vue 3 + element-plus）。
• 如果你使用 Vue 2，请切换到 master 分支（npm 2.x）。
• 历史的 Vue 2 早期版本（npm 1.x）请见 v1 分支。

Install

npm install vue-json-ui-editor
# or
pnpm add vue-json-ui-editor

vue-json-ui-editor 3.x targets Vue 3 and is designed to work with element-plus. For Vue 2, see the master (2.x) or v1 (1.x) branch.

Use

<template>
  <json-editor ref="jsonEditorRef" :schema="schema" v-model="model">
    <el-button type="primary" @click="submit">Submit</el-button>
    <el-button @click="reset">Reset</el-button>
  </json-editor>
</template>

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue';
import JsonEditor from 'vue-json-ui-editor';

const schema = {
  type: 'object',
  title: 'vue-json-editor demo',
  properties: {
    name: { type: 'string' },
    email: { type: 'string' },
  },
};

const model = ref({ name: 'Yourtion' });
const jsonEditorRef = ref<InstanceType<typeof JsonEditor>>();

function submit() {
  // jsonEditorRef.value?.form() returns the underlying element-plus form instance
  jsonEditorRef.value?.form().validate((valid: boolean) => {
    if (!valid) {
      jsonEditorRef.value?.setErrorMessage('Please fill out the required fields');
    }
  });
}

function reset() {
  jsonEditorRef.value?.reset();
}
</script>

json-editor renders with native HTML elements by default. To style it with element-plus, register the components via the static JsonEditor.setComponent(type, component, option?) API — see the example.

Complete working example: example/components/Subscription.vue Schema: example/schema/newsletter.json

props

• schema Object (required) The JSON Schema object. Use the v-if directive to load asynchronous schema.

• v-model / modelValue Object (optional) default: {} Two-way binding for the form data. In Vue 3, v-model binds to the modelValue prop.

• auto-complete String (optional) Whether the value of the control can be automatically completed by the browser. Possible values: off, on.

• no-validate Boolean (optional) default: false Indicates that the form is not to be validated when submitted.

• input-wrapping-class String (optional) Wraps each field's controls in a <div class="...">. Leave undefined to disable input wrapping.

• components Object (optional) default: undefined Per-instance component overrides. When provided, these are merged over the global defaults registered via JsonEditor.setComponent, so multiple <json-editor> instances on the same page can each use a different UI library without polluting each other. Keys are element types (e.g. text, select, form, label); values may be a full { component, option } config or a shorthand component name/object. Leave undefined to fall back to the global registry.

// Two editors on the same page, each with its own text widget:
<json-editor :schema="a" :components="{ text: CompA }" />
<json-editor :schema="b" :components="{ text: CompB }" />

events

• update:modelValue Emitted (for v-model) whenever a field value changes.

• change Fired when a change to an element's value is committed by the user.

• submit Fired when the form is submitted and passes validation.

• invalid Fired when a submittable element has been checked and doesn't satisfy its constraints.

methods

Exposed via a template ref to the <json-editor> instance (e.g. jsonEditorRef.value):

• input(name) Get a form input reference.

• form() Get the rendered form component instance (e.g. the element-plus el-form), so you can call .validate() / .resetFields() on it.

• checkValidity() Checks whether the form satisfies its constraints. Returns boolean.

• validate() Async validation shortcut — delegates to the underlying form component's validate() when available.

• reset() Reset the value of all elements of the form to the initial modelValue.

• setErrorMessage(message) Set an error message (rendered via the error component type).

• clearErrorMessage() Clear the error message.

• getFields() Return the current parsed field tree (including $sub containers for nested objects).

• vm The reactive view-model ({ model, fields, error }), for advanced consumers and option-callback access.

static API

• JsonEditor.setComponent(type, component, option?) Register a Vue component (or native tag name) for a given field/element type (e.g. form, label, email, text, select, error, …). option may be a plain object or a factory callback ({ vm, field, item }) => propsObject. This is how you wire the editor to a UI library like element-plus.

JsonEditor.setComponent('text', 'el-input');
JsonEditor.setComponent('form', 'el-form', ({ vm }) => ({ model: vm.model, rules: {} }));
JsonEditor.setComponent('error', 'el-alert', ({ vm }) => ({ type: 'error', title: vm.error }));

Note on label with element-plus: el-form-item reads its label text from the label prop (not the default slot), so the label registration callback must return label: field.label in addition to prop: field.name. See example/components/Subscription.vue.

Wiring specific widgets via schema attrs

The widget for a field is chosen by attrs.type in its schema property (the editor reads schema.attrs as the field descriptor). Register the type once with setComponent, then drive it from the schema:

JsonEditor.setComponent('switch', 'el-switch');
JsonEditor.setComponent('date', 'el-date-picker');
// schema:
{ active: { type: 'boolean', attrs: { type: 'switch' } } }
{ createdAt: { type: 'string', format: 'date-time', attrs: { type: 'date' } } }

Schema features

• disabled: true and readOnly: true on a property disable/readonly the rendered input (readOnly also implies disabled).
• Nested objects (type: 'object' with properties) render in a sub-container with the object's title (.sub-title) and description (.sub-description).
• Object arrays (type: 'array' with items: { type: 'object', properties }) render as an editable list of sub-form rows. Each array renders a header (field label + add button, .json-editor-array-header) and one row per item (.json-editor-array-row with the item's sub-fields + a remove button). The add/remove buttons are registered via the arrayadd / arrayremove component types (default native <button>; register as el-button / icon buttons for UI library styling — see example/components/Subscription.vue). Arrays work at any nesting depth, including inside nested objects.
• Choice arrays (array + enum/oneOf/anyOf) render as a single select / radio group / checkbox group.

Advanced: reusing the array renderer

The object-array add/remove logic is extracted into a standalone, framework-agnostic module so it can be reused or unit-tested in isolation:

import { createArrayRenderer, type ArrayRendererDeps } from 'vue-json-ui-editor';

const renderer = createArrayRenderer({
  model, onChange, getComp, resolveComp, elementOptions, wrapChild, renderInput,
} satisfies ArrayRendererDeps);
renderer.render(field, fieldName);   // → vnode[] for the whole array (header + rows)
renderer.addRow(fieldName);
renderer.removeRow(fieldName, index);

ArrayRendererDeps declares exactly what the renderer needs (a reactive model, an onChange notifier, and the component-resolution helpers), so it isn't coupled to JsonEditor's setup closure.

TypeScript

This package ships with bundled type declarations. You can import types directly:

import JsonEditor, { type JsonSchema } from 'vue-json-ui-editor';
// newly exported types (v3.1+):
import type {
  JsonEditorStatic,   // the setComponent static method signature
  JsonEditorInstance, // exposed instance methods (form/validate/reset/getFields/vm)
  ComponentConfig, OptionContext, VmContext, ComponentsMap,
  ArrayRendererDeps,  // for createArrayRenderer
} from 'vue-json-ui-editor';

Development

pnpm install      # install dependencies
pnpm dev          # start the example app (Vite)
pnpm build:lib    # build the publishable library bundle
pnpm test         # run unit tests (Vitest)
pnpm check        # type-check + format + test

License

MIT © Yourtion