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React Material-UI Cookbook

By : Adam Boduch
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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)

API integration

Dialogs often need data supplied to it from an API endpoint. The challenge is displaying the dialog in a loading state while the user waits for the API data to load behind the scenes.

How to do it...

Let's say that your application needs to display a dialog with a Select component for selecting an item. The options for the select are populated from an API endpoint, so you need to handle the latency between the user opening the dialog and the API data arriving. Here's an example that shows one way to do this:

import React, { Fragment, useState } from 'react';

import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/styles';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import DialogTitle...