René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is a static form?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"A form on a site that has no server of its own. Normally that means the form has nowhere to send anything, which is why static sites usually borrow a third-party form service. harvis already serves every page of your site, so it can take the submission on the way past instead."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Do I need to know how to code?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"You need to be able to add one word to a line of HTML. If an AI wrote your site, ask it to add the harvis-form attribute to the form — it knows how, because the instructions harvis publishes for AI assistants say so."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Does it work with JavaScript turned off?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. That is the reason it is built this way. The form does an ordinary HTML post and the browser follows a redirect afterwards, exactly as forms worked before JavaScript existed."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can I keep using my own endpoint or another form service?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes — just don't add the attribute. Forms without harvis-form are served exactly as you wrote them, action and all. On a form that does have it, harvis replaces the action, because adding the attribute is how you say where the submission should go."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Does it work with React, Vue or Svelte?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, with one extra step. If the form is in the HTML your build produces, the attribute is all you need. If it only appears once JavaScript has run, write action=\"/__harvis/form/contact\" and method=\"post\" into the component instead — same endpoint, same dashboard, and the browser still does the posting."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can people attach files?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Not yet. A file input on a collected form still works for the visitor, but the file is not stored — only the text fields are kept."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What happens to the submissions if I delete the site?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"They go with it. Submissions belong to the site rather than to a deploy, so redeploying keeps them and deleting the site removes them for good. Export a CSV first if you want to keep them."}}]}