In this episode, we're focusing on taking all the pieces from our video recording feature — the video itself, as well as its title and description — and attaching them to a proper form. The goal is to let you preview your recorded video, enter a title and description, and then save everything by submitting the form, sending all the data to the backend for storage.
We start by replacing our existing DIV container with an actual form element, organizing it so the video preview sits at the top with fields for the title and description underneath, and finally a save button at the bottom. We're borrowing components for the input fields and button from our login page to speed things up, just renaming and reusing them for our needs here.
You'll see how we wire up the form using Inertia's useForm
composable, initializing the state for title, description, and — importantly — the video itself. We talk about the trick with getting the video blob into the right format. Instead of just sending the blob, we convert it into a genuine File object (like what you'd get from an <input type="file">), so the backend can treat it as a regular file upload.
By the end, the form is all set up: it gathers the video, title, and description, and after a test run recording a video, you can see the file show up in the form data. The stage is set for the next step, where we'll generate default values for title and description, tweak the form a bit more, and then get ready to handle everything on the backend!