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React Material-UI Cookbook

By : Adam Boduch
Book Image

React Material-UI Cookbook

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Material-UI is a component library for rendering UI elements, using modern best practices from React and Material Design. This book will show you how you can create impressive and captivating modern-day web apps by implementing Material Design considerations. The book is designed to help you use a variety of Material-UI components to enhance UI functionality, along with guiding you through React best practices, and using state, context, and other new React 16.8 features. You will start with layout and navigation, exploring the Grid component and understanding how it’s used to build layouts for your Material-UI apps. Using Material-UI components, you’ll then explore the technique of effectively presenting information. In later sections, you will also learn about the different components for user interactions such as the text input component and buttons. Finally, the book will get you up to speed with customizing the look and feel of your app, right from creating a Material-UI theme through to styling icons and text. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to improve the look and feel of your applications using Material-UI components.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Controlling input with state

The TextField component can be controlled by the React component, state, just like regular HTML text input elements. As with other types of form controls, the actual value is often the starting point—the state for each form control grows more complex as more functionality is added.

How to do it...

Just like any other text input element, you need to provide the TextField component with an onChange event handler that updates the state for the input. Without this handler, the value of the input won't change as the user types. Let's look at an example where three text fields are rendered and they're each controlled by their own piece of state:

import React, { useState } from...