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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-driven Autocomplete

You can't always have your autocomplete data ready to render on the initial page load. Imagine trying to load hundreds or thousands of items before the user can interact with anything. The better approach is to keep the data on the server and supply an API endpoint with the autocomplete text as the user types. Then you only need to load a smaller set of data returned by the API.

How to do it...

Let's rework the example from the previous section. We'll keep all of the same autocomplete functionality, except that, instead of passing an array to the options property, we'll pass in an API function that returns a Promise. Here's the API function that mocks an API call that resolves...