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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)

Drawer sections

When you have lots of items in your Drawer, you might want to divide your drawer into sections. When you have lots of drawer items and no sections, you end up having to put section names into the items themselves, which leads to messy and awkward drawer item labels.

How to do it...

Let's say that you're working on an app that has screens for managing different aspects of the CPU, memory, storage, and network. Instead of having a flat list of drawer items, you could display drawer items in their relevant sections, making it easier to navigate. Here's the code to do it:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

import { withStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import Drawer...