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Wix Vibe Headless

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From the author

Connect an existing front end to a live Wix site using client-only REST and its public WIX_CLIENT_ID, without an SDK or backend. Covers Stores/cart/checkout, Bookings and Rentals, Blog, Events and tickets, Portfolio, Restaurants, Donations, Forms, CMS, Pricing Plans, and Members with login, social/SSO and gated content. Use when wiring Wix business data and buyer flows into a vibe-coded app, HTML/JSX/Vite project or design export: shopping, appointments, donations, form submissions, memberships, restaurant orders/reservations and member accounts. Ships dependency-free helpers and wiring guides; never provisions or changes owner content and never mocks data. Use wix-headless instead for SDK integration, Wix CLI builds, hosting or new-site creation.
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Wix Vibe Headless provides a set of dependency-free REST helpers and integration guides to connect existing frontend projects to live Wix sites. It enables developers to display Wix business data—such as store products, blog posts, bookings, and events—directly in their own applications without using the Wix SDK, backend infrastructure, or complex build steps. The skill is designed for read-only access to owner content, ensuring that data remains synchronized with the Wix dashboard.

What it does

  • Connects frontends to Wix sites using a public WIX_CLIENT_ID.
  • Provides REST helpers for Stores, Bookings, Blog, Events, and other Wix business solutions.
  • Supports member login and gated content without redirecting to Wix-hosted pages.
  • Maintains visitor sessions using tokens persisted in local storage.
  • Offers structured guidance for wiring data into HTML, JSX, or Vite projects.
  • Ensures consistent data rendering by using formatted values from Wix API objects.

When to use it

  • When you need to display live Wix site data in a custom frontend application.
  • When you want to add shopping, booking, or membership flows to an existing project.
  • When you prefer a client-only, dependency-free integration over the Wix SDK.
  • When you are working with a vibe-coded app, HTML/JSX, or a design-tool export.

Advantages

  • No backend or build step required for integration.
  • Dependency-free implementation using standard REST calls.
  • Maintains a single source of truth for business data in the Wix dashboard.
  • Supports custom UI design while leveraging Wix's business logic.

Usage examples

“Connect my React app to my Wix store products.”
The agent identifies the storefront vertical, copies the necessary REST helpers to the src directory, and provides instructions to wire the product grid component.
“How do I add a blog feed to my Vite project using my Wix site?”
The agent verifies the blog vertical, sets up the taxonomy context, and guides the integration of the shipped post-grid and post-detail components.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/wix/wix-vibe-headless/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip wix-vibe-headless.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Wix

Wix Vibe Headless — client-only REST connectors

Wire an existing front end to a live Wix site from the browser, over the site's public WIX_CLIENT_ID, using hand-rolled REST — no @wix/sdk, no backend, no build step, no dependencies. One skill, one shared transport, and a copy-as-is REST layer per Wix business solution. Everything is read-only over the owner's content: render live Wix data or an honest empty state — never mock, never provision, never invent products, posts, events, menus, plans, reviews, or counts.

When to use this skill

  • The user has (or is building) a front end — a vibe-coded app, plain HTML/JSX, a Vite/React project, a design-tool export — and wants it to show live data from their existing Wix site and complete real purchases/bookings, all from the client.

  • They hand you a public WIX_CLIENT_ID and ask to "connect this to my Wix store / blog / bookings / events / …".

  • They want to replace placeholder/mock data with real Wix content, or add a cart, checkout, booking, RSVP, ticketing, reservation, form, or subscribe flow over an app they already have.

When NOT to use this skill

ScenarioUse instead
Build a new Wix site end-to-end from one prompt (discovery → design → build → host)wix-headless
The project should use the Wix SDK (@wix/sdk) and/or the Wix CLI, or be hosted on Wixwix-headless
Manage/configure the site via REST (install apps, seed catalogs, set up business solutions)wix-manage
Build a Wix app extension (dashboard page, widget, backend, plugin)wix-app

This skill is the deliberately client-only, REST-only path. It is independent from wix-headless (which is SDK + CLI + hosting) — do not mix the two in one project.

The shared model (applies to every vertical)

  • Auth = one public client id. WIX_CLIENT_ID is a buyer/visitor-facing credential — it only mints anonymous visitor tokens. It is not a secret; hardcoding and committing it is fine. The user provides it (their vibe/host platform surfaces a copyable prompt with the id filled in). Paste it into wix-config.js in place of the <YOUR-CLIENT-ID> placeholder.

  • Money/price fields are objects, never scalars. Every price/amount a Wix API returns — Stores price.actualPrice, Bookings service payment.fixed.price, Events ticket registration.tickets.lowestPrice, and the rest — has the shape { value, currency, formattedValue }. Render formattedValue (it already includes the currency symbol), or fall back to building from value + currency. Never drop the object straight into the UI or treat it as a number/string — that renders [object Object] or a bare unformatted number. Donations exception: campaign prices use { amount, formattedAmount }, with a decimal-string amount; donation cart options.amount must instead be a JSON number. Follow the Donations recipe.

  • Visitor token = identity. wix-client.js mints an anonymous visitor token, persists the refresh token to localStorage, and refreshes on expiry. That token IS the identity of the cart / reservation / member session — never re-mint anonymously per load or the cart silently empties.

  • Member login swaps the token set on the same client. The members vertical is custom login — the front owns its login UI; the member is never redirected to a Wix-hosted login page. On success it writes the member's tokens into the same store the visitor token used (setSessionTokens), so every subsequent wixApiRequest runs as the member and the cart/session carries over. "My …" surfaces (plans, orders, bookings, registrations) light up only once logged in.

  • ⚠️ Once you're building on Wix, keep it on Wix — auth, member data, and other business features too. If you're wiring a Wix storefront/blog/etc. over WIX_CLIENT_ID, prefer Wix for the rest of the app as well, rather than reaching for a host platform's own backend or login. Especially for auth: when the user wants members, log them in as a Wix member (members vertical) — don't bolt on the host platform's auth. Likewise, member-generated content (likes, reviews, submissions, "my …" lists) goes in a Wix CMS collection (cms vertical), not a host database.

    • The split-brain trap: the most common failure is mixing the two — e.g. storing "likes" in the host's DB while identifying the member from the Wix session (or logging in with Wix members but keying data on a host user id). The two identities never match, ownership filters silently return nothing (a like vanishes on refresh), and the data never sits with the rest of the Wix content.

    • Rule of thumb: one store and one identity per feature. For a Wix-backed feature that's the Wix member + the Wix collection, with ownership on Wix's server-stamped _owner (never a hand-stored or host-supplied member id). Using a host backend for genuinely host-only data is fine — just never straddle a single feature across both.

  • Never mock, never provision. These scaffolds are read-only over the owner's content. The owner adds products/posts/services/events/menus/plans in the Wix dashboard. If a collection is empty, show the empty state — never fabricate data, reviews, ratings, or counts.

  • Purchases go through Wix. Checkout/ticketing/plan purchase always complete via the Wix redirect-session / Wix-hosted form — never hand-build a /checkout or purchase URL.

  • Fail loudly. The helpers throw on out-of-stock, empty carts, unbookable slots, expired holds, and payment-still-owed. A green path means it really worked — don't swallow the error.

  • Copy the shipped helpers as-is — don't rewrite their internals. Wire your UI to the exported functions; don't "refactor" or reimplement the helper bodies. Several Wix request shapes are exact and easy to break (the members createRedirectSession body is the classic trap — a rewritten version returns 400 and login dies). Extend by calling the exports or adding a new wixApiRequest call for a genuine gap — never by editing the shipped ones.

  • Beyond the snippets, look it up — never guess. The templates and the shipped references/<vertical>/ helpers are the implementation — build from them first. When you hit a genuine gap (a field, an endpoint, or an error the snippets don't cover), extend the client with wixApiRequest — confirming the exact endpoint, method, and body first. For that iteration and troubleshooting — finding the right endpoint, reading a method's request/response schema, or diagnosing an API error — consult the official Wix API documentation using the documentation skill available in your environment to search methods, read pages, and inspect API schemas. Reference index: https://dev.wix.com/docs/api-reference.md

  • Provide the user with deep links to the Wix dashboard: In many cases, the user will need to modify the default vertical data in the Wix dashboard. Always provide the user with these links. The relevant information for each vertical's links is in its INSTRUCTIONS.md file.

How this skill is structured

<SKILL_ROOT> is this file's directory (strip /SKILL.md). Each vertical supplies integration code under references/<vertical>/app/: REST helpers in app/rest/, and, depending on the vertical, utilities, hooks, context, components, or pages. All use the shared transport in references/shared/app/ (app/rest/wix-client.js + wix-config.js, identical for every vertical). Set WIX_CLIENT_ID (and WIX_METASITE_ID) in wix-config.js. Deploying references/<vertical>/app/ and references/shared/app/ into the app's src/ puts every file in place — the REST helpers land in src/rest/, so their relative imports resolve.

Where these files live in the app, and how they get there (pre-installed at setup, or copied in) is your platform's call — follow your platform instructions for that.

Each vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md specifies its prerequisites, supplied pieces, exported interfaces, and the presentation you must build. Read it before implementation: reuse the supplied pieces and build the missing presentation without reimplementing shipped logic. Follow the platform's and vertical's completion guidance where provided.

Routing — pick the vertical(s) from the request

Load the vertical(s) the user's app needs; a project may combine several (e.g. a restaurant with a blog, or a store with pricing plans).

Each vertical's integration files ship in references/<vertical>/app/; copy that dir plus references/shared/app/ into the app's src/ (base44 does this at install via deploy.cjs).

The user wants…VerticalRead
Online store: products, categories, cart, checkoutstorefrontreferences/storefront/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Donations: fundraising campaigns, one-time or recurring giving, hosted checkoutdonationsreferences/donations/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Appointments: services, time slots, booking, checkout — and the form attached to a bookable servicebookingsreferences/bookings/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Rentals: an item hired for a length the customer picks (by the hour or by the day) — Wix Rentals runs on the Bookings APIs, so it is the same verticalbookingsreferences/bookings/INSTRUCTIONS.md ("Rentals")
Blog/news: post feed, post pages, categories, tagsblogreferences/blog/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Events: browse, event page, RSVP, ticketing — an RSVP is here, not forms, even for one occasion with no ticketseventsreferences/events/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Portfolio/showcase: collections, projects, media galleriesportfolioreferences/portfolio/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Restaurant: menu, online ordering, table reservationsrestaurantsreferences/restaurants/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Any visitor-fillable form: contact/enquiry, lead, signup, waitlist, application, feedback/survey, quote request, intake or registration. Not an event RSVP (events), per-service booking form (bookings) or donation contribution (donations)formsreferences/forms/INSTRUCTIONS.md
CMS content: list/detail, filter/search, data CRUD. A visitor-fillable form is forms — cms only when the app must read the entries backcmsreferences/cms/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Plans & pricing: memberships/subscriptions, subscribe, my planspricing-plansreferences/pricing-plans/INSTRUCTIONS.md
Member accounts: custom login/sign-up (email+password, Google/Facebook, SSO), account area, gated contentmembersreferences/members/INSTRUCTIONS.md

⚠️ Anything a visitor fills in and submits is forms — with four exceptions:

  1. The app must read the entries back → cms. A public gallery, a listing, a member's "my submissions". A visitor cannot read Forms submissions, so those need a collection. Submit-only is always forms: a form wired to insertDataItem works, but gives up the dashboard form builder, spam protection, submission notifications and CRM contact mapping, and needs the owner to set collection permissions by hand before anyone can submit at all.

  2. Confirming attendance to an event or occasion → events. A wedding, party or gathering — events ships a built-in RSVP registration form. Route there even for a single occasion with no tickets.

  3. A form attached to a bookable service → bookings.

  4. A contribution to a donation campaign → donations. Recurring giving is not a Pricing Plans purchase; the donation form must preserve the campaign's amount/frequency rules and use its catalog reference.

When the request doesn't name a Wix Business Solution — ask, or check the site

Don't infer which Wix Business Solution to build (stores, bookings, blog, events, portfolio, restaurants, CMS, pricing plans, members, etc..) from a vague brief. Ask the user one short question — what do they offer (products? appointments? posts? events?) — or check what the site actually has: call a cheap read from each likely solution's helper (queryProducts, queryServices, queryPosts, queryEvents, …) — authenticated with a visitor token minted from the WIX_CLIENT_ID, or with an admin token if you have one — and build for the solutions that return real content. A 428 "app not installed" (blog: 401) means that solution isn't on the site; sample-looking content ("Sample product 3") proves the app is installed, not what the business is about. Never default to store/bookings on silence.

The run

  1. Get WIX_CLIENT_ID. It comes from the user (the handoff prompt from their Wix/vibe platform carries it). If it's missing, ask for it before wiring — nothing works without it.

  2. Pick the vertical(s) from the routing table — and when the request doesn't name any, ask or check the site (see above) instead of guessing. Open each picked vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md.

  3. Ensure the vertical's files are in place — copy references/<vertical>/app/ and references/shared/app/ into the app's src/, and set WIX_CLIENT_ID in wix-config.js. (Where and how they get there is your platform's call — see its instructions. On base44 the install step writes and verifies wix-config.js for you, so there's nothing to set by hand.)

  4. Build the presentation and wire the integration following the vertical's INSTRUCTIONS.md. Reuse its supplied pieces through their documented interfaces, build the presentation it leaves to you, and connect routes/providers as specified. Do not reimplement shipped logic. Style new presentation using the existing platform theme.

  5. Complete the applicable platform and vertical guidance, including any required checks and handoff instructions they provide.

Some flows need Wix-side setup the user completes later (payments connected, the deployed domain allow-listed on the OAuth client for hosted-checkout return, collection permissions). Those are out of scope here — if a call fails for that reason, flag it and continue; don't fall back to mock data.

Files

references/forms/app/hooks/useWixForm.js

// useWixForm — one form, minus the markup. It loads the LIVE schema, validates against it, submits,
// and lands the server's violations on the right controls. What it does NOT do is render: this
// vertical ships no UI, because a form is schema-driven (the owner picks the fields), so every form
// has a different field set and no "contact form" component could ship for it. You build the markup
// — see `references/forms/INSTRUCTIONS.md`, "Build the UI".
//
//   const { form, values, setValues, bind, submit, validate, errors, loading, read } =
//     useWixForm(WIX_FORMS.contact.formId);
//
// The fields to render are the RAW field objects Wix returned — no projection, nothing hidden. Take
// them off `form` with the same accessors the hook uses internally (`read` is the module
// `lib/wix-form-schema-utils.js`, handed back so the UI needs one import):
//
//   read.orderedInputs(form).map((field) => <label key={read.targetOf(field)}>{read.labelOf(field)}…</label>)
//
// The controls are CONTROLLED: `values` (keyed by each field's `target`) is the form's state, so
// validate and submit read it directly — there is no FormData pass and no ref to hand over.
//
// Reading the live schema rather than a hardcoded field list is what makes an owner's dashboard edit
// (add, relabel, reorder, require, constrain a field) show up on the site with no code change, and
// what keeps the submission map from desyncing.
//
// Not on React? `validateField` below and everything in `lib/wix-form-schema-utils.js` are plain
// functions — port the ~80 lines of state around them.
import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
import { getForm, phoneExample, normalizePhone } from "@/rest/wix-forms";
import {
  uploadFormFiles,
  toSubmissionValues,
  createSubmission,
  submissionViolations,
} from "@/rest/wix-forms-submissions";
import * as read from "@/lib/wix-form-schema-utils";
import {
  targetOf, labelOf, isRequired, isMulti, isFile, isNumber, isAddress,
  addressPartsOf, validationOf, phoneCountryOf, orderedInputs,
} from "@/lib/wix-form-schema-utils";

/**
 * The key in `errors` for a message that belongs to the FORM rather than one field — a schema that
 * failed to load, or a submit rejection with no per-field violations. `@` can't appear in a Wix
 * form `target`, so this can never collide with a field's own error.
 */
export const FORM_ERROR = "@form";

/**
 * The empty form: one entry per field, in the shape that field's control binds to — `[]` for a
 * multi-choice field, `{}` for an address, and the owner's `default` prefill (else `""`) for the
 * rest. Dropping `defaultValue` here would silently discard a dashboard setting.
 */
function defaultValues(fields) {
  const values = {};
  for (const field of fields) {
    values[targetOf(field)] =
      isAddress(field) ? {} :
      isMulti(field) || isFile(field) ? [] : // a file field holds File objects
      // The owner's prefill. Wix spells it `default` on most components and `defaultValue` on a
      // rating, so read both — picking one silently drops a dashboard setting on the other.
      read.componentOf(field).default ?? read.componentOf(field).defaultValue ?? "";
  }
  return values;
}

/**
 * Client-side validation for one field — the rules behind `validate(target)`. It lives here rather
 * than in `rest/` because nothing about it is a REST call: it's the UI's own read of the schema.
 * Derives EVERY check from that schema — never from the field's name. (The classic mistake is keying the email check on `target === "email"`; doing it
 * off `format` means an owner-added PHONE/URL/length rule is honored with no code change.)
 *
 * ⚠️ A client check LAXER than the server's is worse than none — the visitor then learns about the
 * problem only after a round trip, in the server's wording rather than yours. Keep these at least
 * as strict as the server, and submit the NORMALIZED value the check passed.
 *
 * @param {object} field  One raw field, from `fields`.
 * @param {unknown} value  The control's current value.
 * @returns {string}  A visitor-facing message, or "" when it passes.
 */
export function validateField(field, value) {
  const rules = validationOf(field);
  const label = labelOf(field);
  const v = String(value ?? "").trim();
  if (isRequired(field) && !v) return `${label} is required.`;
  if (!v) return ""; // optional + empty → ok
  if (rules.minLength && v.length < rules.minLength) return `${label} must be at least ${rules.minLength} characters.`;
  if (rules.maxLength && v.length > rules.maxLength) return `${label} must be at most ${rules.maxLength} characters.`;
  // A NUMBER field carries no `format`; its rules are the bounds, and the control hands back a
  // string, so parse before comparing — `"9" > 10` is false but `"9" > "10"` is true.
  if (isNumber(field)) {
    const n = Number(v);
    if (!Number.isFinite(n)) return `${label} must be a number.`;
    const min = minimumOf(field);
    const max = maximumOf(field);
    if (min != null && n < min) return `${label} must be ${min} or more.`;
    if (max != null && n > max) return `${label} must be ${max} or less.`;
    return "";
  }
  if (rules.format === "EMAIL" && !/^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/.test(v)) return "Please enter a valid email address.";
  if (rules.format === "URL" && !/^https?:\/\/.+/.test(v)) return "Please enter a valid URL.";
  // PHONE is E.164 server-side: leading +, country code, digits only. Strip formatting first —
  // visitors add spaces, dashes and parens, and rejecting those is a UX bug, not validation.
  if (rules.format === "PHONE" && !/^\+[1-9]\d{6,14}$/.test(normalizePhone(v)))
    return `Use international format, e.g. ${phoneExample(phoneCountryOf(field))}.`;
  if (rules.pattern && !new RegExp(rules.pattern).test(v)) return `${label} is not in the expected format.`;
  return "";
}

/**
 * A NUMBER field's bounds. The validation block is JSON-Schema shaped everywhere else
 * (`minLength`, `maxLength`, `pattern`, `format`, `enum`), so the numeric pair is `minimum` /
 * `maximum`; `minValue` / `maxValue` are read too, since the public reference documents neither
 * spelling and an older schema may carry them. Undefined when the owner set no bound.
 */
const minimumOf = (field) => validationOf(field).minimum ?? validationOf(field).minValue;
const maximumOf = (field) => validationOf(field).maximum ?? validationOf(field).maxValue;

/** `postalCode` → "Postal code" — an address subfield is a key, not a label the schema carries. */
function humanizeSub(sub) {
  const words = sub.replace(/([A-Z])|(\d+)/g, " $1$2").toLowerCase().trim();
  return words.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words.slice(1);
}

/**
 * The error entries one field currently has, keyed by input NAME — the same keys the controls and
 * the server's error paths use. (Distinct from `validateField` above, which judges a single VALUE
 * against one field's rules and returns one message; this maps that onto the form's keys, and an
 * address has several.) A plain field yields at most one entry (`target`); an ADDRESS
 * yields one per failing subfield (`target/sub`).
 *
 * Every rule comes from the schema (`validateField` above): `required`,
 * `minLength`/`maxLength`, `pattern`, and `format` — EMAIL, PHONE (E.164), URL. Nothing is keyed off
 * a field's NAME, so an owner-added constraint is honored with no code change.
 *
 * An address subfield gets the `required` check only: `country` and `subdivision` are
 * country-dependent enums the schema doesn't enumerate, so their content is the server's call.
 */
function errorsForField(field, values) {
  const errors = {};
  const target = targetOf(field);

  if (isAddress(field)) {
    const parts = values[target] ?? {};
    for (const { sub, required } of addressPartsOf(field)) {
      // Only `required` is checkable here: country/subdivision are country-dependent enums the
      // schema doesn't enumerate, so their content is the server's call.
      if (required && !String(parts[sub] ?? "").trim())
        errors[`${target}/${sub}`] = `${humanizeSub(sub)} is required.`;
    }
    return errors;
  }

  // A file field holds File objects, which no string rule can judge — check the count instead.
  if (isFile(field)) {
    const limit = validationOf(field).fileLimit;
    const picked = [].concat(values[target] ?? []).filter(Boolean);
    if (isRequired(field) && !picked.length) errors[target] = `${labelOf(field)} is required.`;
    else if (limit && picked.length > limit)
      errors[target] = `Attach at most ${limit} file${limit === 1 ? "" : "s"}.`;
    return errors;
  }

  const message = validateField(field, values[target]);
  if (message) errors[target] = message;
  return errors;
}

/** Every field's error entries, merged into one `name → message` map. */
function errorsForForm(fields, values) {
  const errors = {};
  for (const field of fields) Object.assign(errors, errorsForField(field, values));
  return errors;
}

/** `format` → the copy for a FORMAT_ERROR, since "wrong shape" means something different per format. */
const FORMAT_COPY = {
  EMAIL: () => "Enter a valid email address.",
  PHONE: (f) => `Use international format, e.g. ${phoneExample(phoneCountryOf(f))}.`,
  URL: () => "Enter a full URL starting with https://",
  DATE: () => "Choose a valid date.",
};

/** errorType → visitor-facing copy, written from the field's own schema. */
const ERROR_COPY = {
  REQUIRED_VALUE_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} is required.`,
  MIN_LENGTH_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} must be at least ${validationOf(f).minLength} characters.`,
  MAX_LENGTH_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} must be at most ${validationOf(f).maxLength} characters.`,
  MIN_VALUE_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} must be ${minimumOf(f) ?? "higher"} or more.`,
  MAX_VALUE_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} must be ${maximumOf(f) ?? "lower"} or less.`,
  FORMAT_ERROR: (f) => FORMAT_COPY[validationOf(f).format]?.(f) ?? `Please check ${labelOf(f)}.`,
  PATTERN_ERROR: (f) => `${labelOf(f)} is not in the expected format.`,
  NOT_ALLOWED_VALUE_ERROR: (f) => `Choose one of the listed options for ${labelOf(f)}.`,
  TYPE_ERROR: (f) => `Please check ${labelOf(f)}.`,
  UNKNOWN_VALUE_ERROR: (f) => `Please check ${labelOf(f)}.`,
};

/**
 * Turn a failed `createSubmission` into per-control messages, keyed by input NAME — so each message
 * lands on its own control instead of only a form-level banner. An address subfield's server path
 * (`address/subdivision`) is exactly how its control is named, so it maps straight through.
 *
 * The copy is written from `errorType` plus the field's own schema; Wix's `errorMessage` is the
 * validator's internal wording, so it goes to `console.debug` only. An unmapped `errorType` degrades
 * to safe copy — the enum grows, and MIN/MAX_VALUE_ERROR, MIN/MAX_ITEMS_ERROR and
 * DISABLED_FORM_ERROR are all reachable without being listed above.
 *
 * ⚠️ Two rejections here are SEED bugs, not frontend bugs — do NOT mangle the key or the value to
 * work around them (fix them in `seed/SEED.md`):
 *   • `UNKNOWN_VALUE_ERROR` on a key that IS in the schema → the field was seeded with no
 *     `validation` block, and that block is what registers the target as an accepted value.
 *   • `NOT_ALLOWED_VALUE_ERROR` on a choice field → the seed's `options[].value` and its validation
 *     enum disagree; the two declarations must match.
 *
 * @param {Error & { body?: object }} err
 * @param {object[]} fields  The raw fields being rendered.
 * @returns {Record<string, string>}  Empty when the failure wasn't a validation error.
 */
export function mapSubmissionErrors(err, fields) {
  const byTarget = new Map(fields.map((f) => [targetOf(f), f]));
  const errors = {};
  for (const violation of submissionViolations(err)) {
    const field = byTarget.get(violation.errorPath.split("/")[0]);
    if (!field) continue;
    console.debug("wix-forms: server violation", violation.errorPath, violation.errorType, violation.errorMessage);
    errors[violation.errorPath] = ERROR_COPY[violation.errorType]?.(field) ?? `Please check ${labelOf(field)}.`;
  }
  return errors;
}

/**
 * Move focus to a control by input name. ⚠️ `namedItem` returns a `RadioNodeList` for a radio or
 * checkbox group and an element for everything else — a guard that checks only for an element
 * silently skips every choice group.
 */
function focusControl(formEl, name) {
  const control = formEl?.elements?.namedItem?.(name);
  const node =
    typeof RadioNodeList !== "undefined" && control instanceof RadioNodeList ? control[0] : control;
  node?.focus?.();
}

/**
 * @param {string} formId  The form's GUID — read it from `WIX_FORMS` in `rest/wix-forms.config.js`
 *                         (written by the seed); never type a literal id into a component.
 * @returns {{
 *   form: object|null,
 *     // The Form exactly as Wix returned it, once loaded. Nothing is stripped or renamed: the
 *     // fields to render are `read.orderedInputs(form)`, the submit wording
 *     // `read.submitTextOf(form)`. Never hardcode a field list.
 *   values: Record<string, unknown>,
 *     // The form's state, keyed by each field's `target`: a string for text/choice/date, an ARRAY
 *     // for a multi-choice field, an OBJECT for an address. Bind every control's `value` to it.
 *   setValues: (next: object | ((prev: object) => object)) => void,
 *     // The plain React setter — `setValues((v) => ({ ...v, [name]: value }))` from onChange.
 *   bind: (target: string) => object,
 *     // The props a text-ish control needs, ready to spread: name, value, onChange, onBlur and the
 *     // two aria attributes. `<input {...bind(target)} type="email" required />`.
 *   submit: (event?: SubmitEvent) => Promise<boolean>,
 *     // Use as `onSubmit`. Validates, submits, and resolves TRUE when the submission was created —
 *     // that resolved true IS the success signal (a visitor can't read submissions back), so flip
 *     // your own thank-you state on it. FALSE means `errors` now says why.
 *   validate: (target?: string) => boolean,
 *     // `validate("email")` checks that one field, `validate("address/city")` one address subfield,
 *     // `validate()` the whole form. Every rule comes from the schema — `required`,
 *     // `minLength`/`maxLength`, `pattern`, `format` (EMAIL/PHONE/URL) — never from a field's name.
 *     // Writes `errors` (clearing what now passes) and returns whether what it checked passed.
 *   errors: Record<string, string>,
 *     // input name → visitor-facing message. The name is the field's `target`, or `target/sub` for
 *     // an address subfield. `errors[FORM_ERROR]` holds a form-level message (load or submit).
 *   loading: boolean,
 *     // Busy: loading the schema (`form` still null) or submitting (`form` set).
 *   read: typeof import("@/lib/wix-form-schema-utils"),
 *     // The schema accessors — functions, not data: `read.labelOf(field)`, `read.choicesOf(field)`,
 *     // `read.submitTextOf(form)`, … Handed back so the UI needs one import.
 * }}
 */
export function useWixForm(formId) {
  const [form, setForm] = useState(null);
  const [values, setValues] = useState({});
  const [errors, setErrors] = useState({});
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
  // The empty form to fall back to after a successful submit — the schema's own defaults.
  const emptyRef = useRef({});

  // Every visible INPUT the schema lays out, in the owner's order — the list the hook seeds values
  // from, validates and submits. The UI gets it the same way (`read.orderedInputs(form)`), so there
  // is no second copy to keep in sync and no filtered subset to explain.
  const fields = useMemo(() => orderedInputs(form), [form]);

  useEffect(() => {
    let live = true;
    if (!formId) {
      setLoading(false);
      setErrors({ [FORM_ERROR]: "No formId — pass one from WIX_FORMS (the seed writes it)." });
      return;
    }
    setLoading(true);
    getForm(formId)
      .then((loaded) => {
        if (!live) return;
        setForm(loaded);
        setErrors({});
        setLoading(false);
      })
      .catch((e) => {
        if (!live) return;
        // Fail loudly. A form that can't load is a setup problem (wrong id, Forms app missing) —
        // never fall back to a hand-built form, which would drop real enquiries silently.
        setErrors({ [FORM_ERROR]: e.message || "Could not load the form." });
        setLoading(false);
      });
    return () => {
      live = false;
    };
  }, [formId]);

  // Seed the controls once the schema is in: every control is controlled from the first render, so
  // each `target` must hold a value of the right shape before any of them mount.
  useEffect(() => {
    const empty = defaultValues(fields);
    emptyRef.current = empty;
    setValues(empty);
  }, [fields]);

  const validate = useCallback(
    (target) => {
      // No target → the whole form. This is what `submit` runs before it sends anything.
      if (!target) {
        const all = errorsForForm(fields, values);
        setErrors(all);
        return Object.keys(all).length === 0;
      }

      const key = String(target);
      const field = fields.find((f) => targetOf(f) === key.split("/")[0]);
      if (!field) return true;

      // The error keys this call owns, so a re-check CLEARS what it fixed as well as flagging what
      // it didn't: one key for a plain field, or all of an address's subfields (`target/sub`) when
      // the address itself is named. Naming a single subfield scopes it to that one.
      const owned = key.includes("/")
        ? [key]
        : isAddress(field)
          ? addressPartsOf(field).map(({ sub }) => `${targetOf(field)}/${sub}`)
          : [targetOf(field)];

      const found = errorsForField(field, values);
      setErrors((prev) => {
        const next = { ...prev };
        for (const k of owned) {
          delete next[k];
          if (found[k]) next[k] = found[k];
        }
        return next;
      });
      return owned.every((k) => !found[k]);
    },
    [fields, values],
  );

  // Everything a text-ish control needs, in one spread: `<input {...bind("email_a1b2")} type="email" />`.
  // Covers input / textarea / select. A checkbox or radio group carries `checked` instead of `value`
  // and a file input can't be controlled at all — wire those two by hand (INSTRUCTIONS.md, step 2),
  // keeping the same `name`, `onBlur` and `aria-*` contract.
  const bind = useCallback(
    (target) => ({
      name: target,
      value: values[target] ?? "",
      onChange: (event) => setValues((prev) => ({ ...prev, [target]: event.target.value })),
      onBlur: () => validate(target),
      "aria-describedby": `err-${target}`,
      "aria-invalid": errors[target] ? true : undefined,
    }),
    [values, errors, validate],
  );

  const submit = useCallback(
    async (event) => {
      event?.preventDefault?.();
      // Capture the <form> now: React clears `currentTarget` once the handler returns, so reading it
      // after the await below (to focus a server-rejected control) would come back null.
      const formEl = event?.currentTarget ?? null;
      if (!form) return false;

      // Client pass first, so the visitor gets inline feedback in OUR wording before a round trip.
      const clientErrors = errorsForForm(fields, values);
      if (Object.keys(clientErrors).length) {
        setErrors(clientErrors);
        // FOCUS the first invalid control — `scrollIntoView` moves the viewport and nothing else,
        // leaving a keyboard or screen-reader user where they were. The <form> comes from the event,
        // and each control is found by its `name` (which is its `target`).
        focusControl(formEl, Object.keys(clientErrors)[0]);
        return false;
      }

      setLoading(true);
      try {
        // Any picked files go up FIRST — a `File` object is not something the submission API takes,
        // and its value is the upload URL this hands back. No file fields → nothing happens here.
        const uploaded = await uploadFormFiles(form.id, fields, values);
        // Resolves on CONFIRMED, PENDING or PAYMENT_WAITING — all three are created submissions.
        // There is nothing to read back, so this is the only confirmation there is. (A form that
        // collects payment leaves the visitor a payment step; call createSubmission directly if you
        // need its `status` to surface that inside your success state.)
        await createSubmission(form.id, toSubmissionValues(fields, uploaded));
        setErrors({});
        setValues(emptyRef.current); // back to the schema's defaults, ready for another
        return true;
      } catch (e) {
        // Per-field violations land on their controls; anything else is a form-level message.
        const mapped = mapSubmissionErrors(e, fields);
        if (Object.keys(mapped).length) {
          setErrors(mapped);
          focusControl(formEl, Object.keys(mapped)[0]);
        } else {
          setErrors({ [FORM_ERROR]: e.message || "Could not send the form. Please try again." });
        }
        return false;
      } finally {
        setLoading(false);
      }
    },
    [fields, form, values],
  );

  return { form, values, setValues, bind, submit, validate, errors, loading, read };
}

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