diff --git a/app/src/composables/form.ts b/app/src/composables/form.ts
index fcc25cc3..71150f0d 100644
--- a/app/src/composables/form.ts
+++ b/app/src/composables/form.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
-import type { BaseValidation } from '@vuelidate/core'
-import type { InjectionKey, MaybeRefOrGetter } from 'vue'
-import { inject, provide, toValue } from 'vue'
+import type {
+  BaseValidation,
+  ServerErrors,
+  ValidationArgs,
+  ValidationRuleCollection,
+} from '@vuelidate/core'
+import useVuelidate from '@vuelidate/core'
+import type { InjectionKey, MaybeRefOrGetter, Ref } from 'vue'
+import { inject, provide, reactive, toValue } from 'vue'
+import { computedWithControl } from '@vueuse/core'
+
+import { APIBadRequestError, type APIError } from '@/api/errors'
+import type { Obj } from '@/types/commons'
+import type { FormField, FormFieldDict } from '@/types/form'
 
 export const clearServerErrorsSymbol = Symbol() as InjectionKey<
   (key?: string) => void
@@ -30,3 +41,90 @@ export function useTouch(
 
   return touch
 }
+
+export function useForm<
+  MV extends Obj,
+  FFD extends FormFieldDict<MV> = FormFieldDict<MV>,
+>(form: Ref<MV>, fields: MaybeRefOrGetter<FFD>) {
+  const serverErrors = reactive<ServerErrors>({})
+  const validByDefault: ValidationRuleCollection = { true: () => true }
+  const rules = computedWithControl(
+    () => toValue(fields),
+    () => {
+      const fs = toValue(fields)
+      const validations = Object.keys(form.value).map((key: keyof MV) => [
+        key,
+        (fs[key] as FormField).rules ?? validByDefault,
+      ])
+      const rules: ValidationArgs<MV> = Object.fromEntries(validations)
+      return {
+        // create a fake validation rule for global state to be able to add $externalResult errors to it
+        global: { true: () => true },
+        form: rules,
+      }
+    },
+  )
+
+  const v = useVuelidate(
+    rules,
+    { form, global: null },
+    { $externalResults: serverErrors },
+  )
+
+  function onErrorFn(err: APIError, errorMessage?: string) {
+    if (!(err instanceof APIBadRequestError)) throw err
+    if (errorMessage || !err.data.name) {
+      serverErrors.global = [errorMessage || err.message]
+    } else {
+      deepSetErrors(
+        serverErrors,
+        [err.message],
+        'form',
+        ...err.data.name.split('.'),
+      )
+    }
+  }
+
+  function onSubmit(
+    fn: (onError: typeof onErrorFn, serverErrors: ServerErrors) => void,
+  ) {
+    // FIXME add option to ask confirmation (with param text confirm)
+    return async (e: SubmitEvent) => {
+      e.preventDefault()
+      if (!(await v.value.$validate())) return
+      fn(onErrorFn, serverErrors)
+    }
+  }
+
+  provide(clearServerErrorsSymbol, (key?: string) => {
+    const keys = key?.split('.')
+    if (keys?.length) {
+      deepSetErrors(serverErrors, [], ...keys)
+    }
+  })
+
+  return {
+    v,
+    serverErrors,
+    onSubmit,
+  }
+}
+
+export function deepSetErrors(
+  serverErrors: ServerErrors,
+  value: string[],
+  ...keys: string[]
+) {
+  const [k, ...ks] = keys
+  if (ks.length) {
+    if (!(k in serverErrors) && !value.length) {
+      serverErrors[k] = {}
+      deepSetErrors(serverErrors[k] as ServerErrors, value, ...ks)
+    } else if (k in serverErrors) {
+      deepSetErrors(serverErrors[k] as ServerErrors, value, ...ks)
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (!(k in serverErrors) && !value.length) return
+    serverErrors[k] = value
+  }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/helpers/commons.ts b/app/src/helpers/commons.ts
index 669e3c63..421aee72 100644
--- a/app/src/helpers/commons.ts
+++ b/app/src/helpers/commons.ts
@@ -162,3 +162,7 @@ export function omit<T extends Obj, K extends (keyof T)[]>(
       .map((key) => [key, obj[key]]),
   ) as Omit<T, K[number]>
 }
+
+export function asUnreffed<T>(value: T): UnwrapRef<T> {
+  return value as UnwrapRef<T>
+}
diff --git a/app/src/types/form.ts b/app/src/types/form.ts
index 37c8802f..4bbb06f7 100644
--- a/app/src/types/form.ts
+++ b/app/src/types/form.ts
@@ -275,3 +275,12 @@ export type FormFieldDict<T extends Obj = Obj> = {
         | FormFieldReadonly<AnyWritableComponents>
         | FormFieldDisplay<AnyDisplayComponents>
 }
+
+export type FieldProps<
+  C extends AnyItemComponents = 'InputItem',
+  MV extends any = never,
+> = C extends AnyWritableComponents
+  ? FormField<C, MV> | FormFieldReadonly<C>
+  : C extends AnyDisplayComponents
+    ? FormFieldDisplay<C>
+    : never