Regula: An annotation-based form-validator written in Javascript
Regula is an annotation-based form-validation framework written in Javascript. There already exist a few frameworks that address form-validation in Javascript, but I have found them to be somewhat lacking. I have thought about writing one of my own for some time, but I honestly had no idea what form it would or should take. I knew that I wanted to make one that was easy to use, flexible, and easily extensible (custom validation rules). I finally got an idea as to the form my framework should take, when I was looking at Hibernate bean-validation. I like the fact that you can set constraints by using annotations like @NotNull or @NotEmpty. That way, when you look at the bean, you are immediately aware of the constraints attached to it. I wanted to do something similar in HTML.
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