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The Material-UI List component is handy because it has lots of out-of-the-box functionality. Take a look at the following API’s the List examples in the docs hook into: However, finding example beyond the docs, or simply understanding clearly how to use some of the customizations, can be challenging. In this demo we use the Checkbox … Read more
The Material-UI Select component creates a slick menu for users to choose from a list of options. The standard Select uses a dropdown (created from a Popover component) and the native Select uses the html option element. Both of these variations of the component can have checkboxes enabled. The standard Select can easily have checkboxes … Read more
The Material-UI Drawer component is an essential layout component for everything from navigation links to informational sidebars. In this React Material-UI Drawer example, we will make a mobile responsive Drawer component that is always visible on screen sizes > 375px, and on smaller screens it opens and closes with the click of a menu icon. … Read more
React-Router is a highly popular routing library. As of the beginning of 2021, it has more than 4 million weekly downloads: One of the core pieces of react-router is the Link component. This versatile component has props for customizing routing, passing routing params as objects, styling, history, and more. Let’s build an app that demonstrates … Read more
The Material-UI Popover is a handy component for giving quick information to users. However, it has characteristics of both tooltip and modal components, so it has some quirks. In this example, we’ll position the popover relative to it’s anchor element and also relative to the click position in the window. Furthermore, we’ll transform the starting … Read more
The Material-UI Container is a great all-purpose layout component. The fluid container makes it even easier to center and size components exactly as you want them. How? The fluid container expands and contracts with screen size according to a simple maxWidth prop easily passed to the component. Full React code for this tutorial is in … Read more
Normally I like to take a Material-UI component and customize it in a challenging and useful way. However, the Backdrop component is a simple mask component that might be used with a modal or used to block a section of the screen while waiting for data to load. With something this straight forward, I struggled … Read more
The Material-UI DataGrid component is designed for interacting with large data sets. However, it can be tricky to get the layout exactly like you want. What We’ll Build In this article I will construct a DataGrid with the following features (plus a Resources section): These things may not sound complicated, but custom styling individual rows … Read more
Many React projects have ESLint set up and devs are fixing lint errors as they code. This is great for reducing bugs, and keeping code cleanly formatted. However, sometimes there’s a situation where a project can have a lot of linting errors (i.e. adding ESLint to an existing project) and it would be tedious for … Read more
Anytime you can get TypeScript typing working with React code, it’s best to use it. However, there are times that applying TypeScript is so difficult that it is best to tactically disable it. I’ll start with several methods of how to disable linting for a line or lines of code, because the how is factual. … Read more
