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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React
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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

by Sebastian Grebe
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
460 pages
10h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controlled components

When we wrote our post form to submit new posts or the message inputs inside chat in the previous chapters, we used controlled input by incident. To provide a better understanding, I am going to quickly explain the difference between controlled and uncontrolled components, and when to use each of them.

Let's start with uncontrolled input.

By definition, a component is uncontrolled whenever the value is not set by a property through React, but only saved and taken from the real browser DOM. The value of an input is then retrieved from a reference to the DOM Node, and is not managed and taken from React's component state.

The following code shows the post form where the user will be able to submit new posts. I have excluded ...

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