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Netlify comes with built-in form handling. Our build bots do it by parsing your HTML files directly at deploy time, so there’s no need for you to make an API call or include extra JavaScript on your site.
The form is required to be in the rendered files at deploy time. The problem with SPA mode is that none of your pages are actually rendered as HTML. You can check this by right clicking the page, and clicking “View Page Source”. You won’t be able to find the form.
Netlify addresses this problem here in their docs.
They have a specific post for fixing this for a Vue app here
A little more digging on the the issue and we find a Nuxt solution here:
Place the following in static/form-dummy/index.html:
<form name="MYFORM" action="/form/success" netlify>
<!-- form controls here -->
</form>
Place the following in pages/form/index.vue (Or whenever you’ve named your Vue file)
<form name="MYFORM" action="/form/success" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="form-name" value="MYFORM" />
<!-- form controls here -->
</form>
From the post:
You just need to make sure you add that hidden in the Vue component so that Netlify recognises the form submission as associated with the form called MYFORM. I think you also need to ensure all the inputs you want to receive data for are on both forms.
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Just to complement @hmilbradt answer, the action path of your dynamic form should match the path to the static form. If the path to your static form is /form/contact.html then the action or path in your dynamic form should be /form/contact.html too. I spent a lot of time trying to fix this problem. In my case I send an AJAX request:
await fetch('/forms/contact.html', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },
body: new URLSearchParams(formData).toString(),
});