JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 4

Using Data and Events in React

IN THIS CHAPTER

Handling events

Setting listeners with event attributes

Investigating the synthetic event object

Specifying and binding event handlers

Passing event handlers as props

Using event handlers in function components

Gathering data with forms

Using controlled and uncontrolled inputs

“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In Book 3, Chapter 1, I cover the React development process, which starts with a static mockup and progresses through building a static version, figuring out what is state, and implementing the state. The last step in the process is to implement ...