Editing User Information
Explore how to build and integrate an edit form for user information in a full stack Django and React app. Learn to handle form submission, API patch requests, and update user data including avatar, name, and bio, enhancing your skills in user profile management.
We'll cover the following...
Now that we have the profile page ready, we can create the page that will contain the form to edit user information.
The “Edit” button on the “Profile” page should redirect the user to a page with a form to update its information. In this lesson, we'll modify the useUserActions Hook by adding a new method to edit user information via the API. Then, we will create the form to edit user information. Lastly, we will integrate the editing form component on the EditUser page.
Let’s start by adding a new method to the useUserActions Hook.
Adding the edit method to useUserActions
In the src/hooks/user.actions.js file, we'll add another method to the useUserActions Hook. This function will handle the patch request to the API. Because we are saving ...