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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)

Floating actions

Some screens in your application will have one primary action. For example, if you're on a screen that lists items, the primary action might be to add a new item. If you're on an item details page, the primary action might be to edit the item. Material-UI provides a Fab component (floating action button) to show primary screen actions in a prominent way.

How to do it...

The common case for floating action buttons is to show the user a round button with an icon representing the action to perform, positioned in the bottom right of the screen. Also, the position of floating action buttons is fixed, meaning that as the user scrolls down the page, the primary action is always visible.

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