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React and React Native

You're reading from   React and React Native Build cross-platform JavaScript and TypeScript apps for the web, desktop, and mobile

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127307
Length 508 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Mikhail Sakhniuk Mikhail Sakhniuk
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part I: React
2. Why React? FREE CHAPTER 3. Rendering with JSX 4. Understanding React Components and Hooks 5. Event Handling in the React Way 6. Crafting Reusable Components 7. Type-Checking and Validation with TypeScript 8. Handling Navigation with Routes 9. Code Splitting Using Lazy Components and Suspense 10. User Interface Framework Components 11. High-Performance State Updates 12. Fetching Data from a Server 13. State Management in React 14. Server-Side Rendering 15. Unit Testing in React 16. Part II: React Native
17. Why React Native? 18. React Native under the Hood 19. Kick-Starting React Native Projects 20. Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox 21. Navigating Between Screens 22. Rendering Item Lists 23. Geolocation and Maps 24. Collecting User Input 25. Responding to User Gestures 26. Showing Progress 27. Displaying Modal Screens 28. Using Animations 29. Controlling Image Display 30. Going Offline 31. Other Books You May Enjoy
32. Index

Collecting user input

Collecting input from users can be difficult. There are many nuanced things about every field that we need to consider if we plan on getting the user experience right. Thankfully, the Form components available in Material UI take care of a lot of usability concerns for us. In this section, you’ll get a brief sampling of the input controls that you can use.

Checkboxes and radio buttons

Checkboxes are useful for collecting true/false answers from users, while radio buttons are useful for getting the user to select an option from a short number of choices. Let’s take a look at an example of these components in Material UI:

export default function Checkboxes() {
  const [checkbox, setCheckbox] = React.useState(false);
  const [radio, setRadio] = React.useState("First");
  return (
    <div>
      <FormControlLabel
        label={'Checkbox ${checkbox ? "(checked)" : ""}'}
        control={...
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