Headless Kit

createFormView() sits between mountForm() and mlform/runtime.

Use it when you want:

custom React, Vue, Lit, or vanilla DOM layouts
step-based flows with app-owned layout control
access to resolved fields, reports, explanations, registries, and wizard navigation from one app-facing API

import { createFormView, createJsonTransport } from "mlform";

const view = createFormView({
  transport: createJsonTransport({ endpoint: "/predict" }),
  schema,
  layout: {
    kind: "wizard",
    steps: [
      {
        title: "Profile",
        children: [{ kind: "field", field: "name" }],
      },
      {
        title: "Review",
        children: [{ kind: "field", field: "email" }],
      },
    ],
  },
});

const snapshot = view.getSnapshot();

FormViewSnapshot gives you:

form — the current FormState
layout — normalized, validated layout tree
fields
reports
explanations
wizard — current wizard metadata or null

Unlike mountForm(), createFormView() does not create DOM or attach a design system stylesheet.

Use subscribe() to re-render your host UI and nextStep(), prevStep(), or goToStep() to drive wizard flows.