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Jemima M
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Adventofcode 🎄 : Day 4 - Handling events (React)

December 4th is all about handling events in React. So let's revise what this means...

Fundamentally, event handling in React empowers users to interact with a webpage, triggering designated actions whenever events like clicks or hovers occur. React events are initiated when users engage with an application, encompassing interactions such as mouseovers, key presses, change events and more.

Below are distinct events in React that may occur during interactions with websites developed using React:

  1. Selecting an element
  2. Submitting a form
  3. Scrolling the page
  4. Hovering over an element
  5. Loading a webpage
  6. Modifying an input field
  7. Keystroke by the user
  8. Loading an image

React events are named using camelCase, rather than lowercase.

Here is an example:

<button onClick={activateHello}>
  Activate Hello
</button>
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Conclusion

React's event handling equips developers with the tools to craft dynamic and interactive user interfaces, enabling responsive reactions to diverse user actions. By skilfully implementing events, developers capture and respond to user interactions, ultimately adding to the overall user experience.

Hope you have learnt something...in the meantime, KEEP CODING!!🎄👩🏼‍💻

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