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JavaScript React Router Basics Getting Started with React Router What is Routing?

Posted by Lai Yi Ohlsen
Lai Yi Ohlsen
2,318 Points

React and saving data

Can you provide some resources or descriptions around how React interacts with the backend? For example, if you wanted to save the data from the sign up form, what needs to be done?

1 Answer

Stan Day
Stan Day
36,802 Points
Stan Day
Stan Day
36,802 Points

Hi Lai, You can bind a function to the sign up form submit event, in that function get the form data and call your backend via ajax. When you get a response you can update state so the ui can show if the sign up was successful or if there is an error like if the username was taken for instance.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import serialize from 'form-serialize';
import restApi from '../lib/rest-api';

class SignUp extends Component {
  state = {
    errorMessage: null,
  };

  onSubmit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();

    const data = serialize(e.target, { hash: true });

    restApi.post('/user', data)
      .then(res => {
        // success
      })
      .catch(err => {
        this.setState({ errorMessage: err });
      });
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <form onSubmit={this.onSubmit} className="SignUp">
        {this.state.errorMessage && (
          <p>{this.state.errorMessage}</p>
        )}
        <input name="name" type="text" placeholder="Name" />
        <input name="email" type="text" placeholder="Email" />
        <input name="password" type="password" placeholder="Password" />
        <button type="submit">Sign Up</button>
      </form>
    )
  }
}

export default SignUp