Steps to Create a React App

Step 1: Create a new react application using the commands provided below.

npx create-react-app form-handling

Step 2: Navigate into the directory with the command provided below.

cd form-handling

Forms are an important part of web development. Form handling is a crucial user interaction for websites. React hooks provide a concise and very efficient way to handle the state of the form as the user interacts with the form fields. There are mainly two react hooks for this purpose.

1. useState:- useState hook is used to manage the current state of any input field in the context of form handling. useState is a very nice way to hold the data over the website till the time you want.
2. useEffect:– useEffect is used to perform side effects on the website. use effect can be used to trigger actions after successful form submission as shown in example one. useEffect can also be used in case the form requires additional data to be fetched from the server, such as options of the `select` form field.

In this article, we will learn how to efficiently manage forms using react hooks.