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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)

Customizing menu items

You can change regular menu items that have onClick handlers into something more elaborate. For example, you might want a menu with links to other screens in your app.

How to do it...

Let's say that you're using react-router in your application to control the navigation from one screen to another, and you would like to use a Menu component to render links. Here's an example that shows how to do this:

import React, { Fragment, useState } from 'react';
import { Switch, Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom';

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