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Creating a Sliding Menu in React

Sliding menus are all the rage in UIs today. All the cool kids are building them, and your friends probably just can’t get enough of them. These menus are basically off-screen elements that slide into view when you click or tap on something. That something could be an arrow, a hamburger icon, or something else that indicates a menu will appear.

To see a sliding menu in action, go here: https://www.kirupa.com/react/examples/slidingmenu_css/index.html.

You’ll see a yellow menu with some navigation links smoothly slide in. If you click a navigation link or anywhere in the yellow region inside that menu, the menu slides back (really smoothly again, of course) and the content behind it reappears. Let’s look at ...

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