jQuery formBuilder

Compare Form builders for web application

a. jQuery formBuilder
A jQuery plugin for drag and drop form creation, formBuilder has many options and is translatable.

b. formio.js
This library is a plain JavaScript form renderer and SDK for Form.io. This allows you to render the JSON schema forms produced by Form.io and render those within your application using plain JavaScript, as well as provides an interface SDK to communicate to the Form.io API’s. The benefits of this library include.

• Plain JavaScript implementation using ES6 and Modern practices (no jQuery, Angular, React, or any other framework dependency)
• Renders a JSON schema as a webform and hooks up that form to the Form.io API’s
• Complete Form Builder which creates the JSON schema used to render the forms.
• Nested components, layouts, Date/Time, Select, Input Masks, and many more included features
• Full JavaScript API SDK library on top of Form.io

Comparitive study on jQuery formBuilder and formio.js

Below comparison will help us to choose the right plugin based on the requirement.

Above table contains the comparison of form fields, layouts and other supports.

Some additional form field comparison.

conclusion
When you want to build a simple form builder and it should be able to manage by the admin with out any training / effort then jQuery formBuilder is the best choice. formio.js have some learning curve but very powerful feature when compared to jqueryformbuilder.