Manage the Form State with useFormik
Learn how to track changes in a React form with the useFormik hook.
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A plain HTML form can accept values, but it doesn't keep track of the values in a single state. In React, the standard way to track form values is by creating a state with initial values and updating this state whenever a field's value is updated. This is how useFormik
does it.
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Let's update our form to track the values of the form in a central state with useFormik
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* { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; transition: 0.6s; } section { width: 100%; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 4rem; } h1 { font-weight: 800; font-size: 2.2rem; color: #303170; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; } p { color: #74728a; font-weight: 500; } form { margin: 3rem 0; } label { font-size: 0.875rem; color: #2e2d44; font-weight: 600; } input { display: block; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.4rem; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px 16px; border: 1px solid #ececec; outline: none; margin-top: 0.4rem; font-size: 1rem; } input:focus { border-color: #303170; } button { background: #5f30e1; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px 20px; outline: none; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; border: none; font-weight: 600; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: #ffffff; margin-top: 2rem; cursor: pointer; } button:hover { background: #303170; }
How to manage the form state with useFormik
Explanation
The first thing we do in the ReservoForm.js file is to import the useFormik
hook from formik
. From line 4 to line 12, we call the useFormik
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