useSubmit

In modern web applications, it's common practice to call preventDefault() on the form's onSubmit event handler and to use AJAX to handle the submission to provide a "zippier" user experience without full page refreshes. You can think of it as the form counterpart of client-side navigation.

Rakkas provides a useSubmit custom hook that makes this technique trivial to implement. It returns an object that has a submitHandler property. You can turn a form into an AJAX form by setting its onSubmit event handler to submitHandler:

This is an example of "progressive enhancement". The form submission will still work even if JavaScript fails or is too slow to load. But we will provide a better user experience if everything loads fine.