This architecture is suitable for applications that require full control over form and response data and integration with existing systems.

Installation

Choose the package for your framework:

React

npm install survey-creator-react

Get Started with Survey Creator for React

Angular

npm install survey-creator-angular

Get Started with Survey Creator for Angular

Vue.js

npm install survey-creator-vue

Get Started with Survey Creator for Vue.js

Plain JavaScript

npm install survey-creator-js

Get Started with Survey Creator for Plain JavaScript

Key Features

Embeddable Form Builder

• Embed the form builder in React, Angular, Vue, or plain JavaScript applications.
• Run the editor entirely in the browser.
• Connect it to any server, database, or authentication system.
• Store form definitions and submitted data in your own backend.
• Add the editor to single-tenant or multi-tenant SaaS applications.

Visual Form Editing

• Build forms with a drag-and-drop UI.
• Create multi-page forms and form wizards.
• Configure conditional visibility, branching, validation, and calculated values.
• Edit form themes through a visual Theme Editor.
• Preview forms before publication.

JSON-Driven Forms

• Generate a JSON definition as users edit a form.
• Load existing JSON definitions back into the editor.
• Version, copy, and reuse form definitions.
• Render forms with SurveyJS Form Library.
• Use the same definition for web forms, PDFs, and analytics workflows.

Customizable UI

• Use the UI Preset Editor to customize the Toolbox, Property Grid, tabs, actions, languages, and other UI options, then export the configuration as a reusable JSON preset.
• Add custom question types and reusable components.
• Apply custom branding and themes, or use theme adapters to map Survey Creator design tokens to Bootstrap, Material UI, or shadcn/ui.
• Configure the UI for different roles, tenants, or subscription plans.
• Localize the editor and support right-to-left languages.

Resources

• Website
• Documentation
• Full-Featured Demo
• Release Notes
• Roadmap
• What's New

SurveyJS Product Family

• Form Library - A free and open-source MIT-licensed JavaScript library that renders dynamic JSON-based forms in your web application, and collects responses.
• Survey Creator - A self-hosted drag-and-drop form builder that automatically generates JSON definition (schemas) of your forms in real time. Try out a free full-featured demo to evaluate its capabilities.
• Dashboard - Simplifies survey data visualization and analysis with interactive and customizable charts and tables.
• PDF Generator - A commercially licensed JavaScript library that renders SurveyJS surveys and forms as PDF files in a browser. With PDF Generator you can save an unlimited number of custom-built forms to PDF (both editable and read-only).
• AI Form Response Extractor - A free and open-source MIT-licensed JavaScript library that extracts responses from paper forms, PDFs, and images, maps them to the SurveyJS schema, and produces a unified response object that can be stored and processed alongside online submissions. (ai-form-response-extractor).

Licensing

SurveyJS Survey Creator requires a commercial license for each software developer who works with the SurveyJS APIs or implements the integration. You can integrate the Survey Creator component to build a proof of concept and evaluate its full functionality without a license. A developer license is only required for production use. SurveyJS Form Library, which renders forms created with Survey Creator, is available under the MIT license.