is there a method to check the validity of a field regardless of if it has been validated yet?

[IDrumsey]

I have a use case where my form uses the onTouched validation mode, but I need to check if one of my fields is valid before the form fields have been validated. Is there already something for this? If not it could be cool to have something like

const {register, checkIfFieldIsValid} = useForm({mode: "onTouched"})

const myCustomFunction = () => {
  if(checkIfFieldIsValid("myField")) {
    // do stuff
  }
}

With this type of thing, it would be possible to check if a field is valid even if formState.errors.myField isn't accurate due to the useForm mode being onTouched.

[Moshyfawn]

I think you want the trigger method.

[IDrumsey]

I don't want to trigger the validation because then when my custom functionality runs it would cause error messages to show up on the UI when I don't want them to. To help elaborate, my problem would be fixed if I didn't use onTouched mode, but I want to use that. So the question is, how can I check if a field is valid without effecting the form state before the first actual form validation has been triggered.

[IDrumsey]

Here's an SO if that helps - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78116060/react-hook-form-how-to-check-if-form-field-is-valid-before-form-validation-is-fi