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Artemij Fedosejev
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Artemij Fedosejev is a technical lead living in London, United Kingdom. He is a self-taught web developer who has been a web developer since the early 2000s. Artemij earned his BSc in computer science from University College Cork, Ireland. He participated in the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, where he built and launched a website that received the Most Innovative Project award. Artemij has played a key role in creating frontend architecture using React.js and Flux for various websites. Artemij created a number of open source projects, including Snapkite Engine, Snapkite Stream Client, and other projects.
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Refactoring the CollectionRenameForm component


CollectionRenameForm is a controlled form component. This means that its input value is stored in the component's state, and the only way to update that value is to update the component's state. It has the initial value that it should get from CollectionStore, so let's make that happen.

First, we need to import the CollectionActionCreators and CollectionStore modules:

var CollectionActionCreators = require('../actions/CollectionActionCreators');
var CollectionStore = require('../stores/CollectionStore');

Now, we need to update the getInitialState() method as follows:

getInitialState: function() {
  return {
     inputValue: this.props.name
  };
},

Now we change it to this code snippet:

getInitialState: function() {
  return {
    inputValue: CollectionStore.getCollectionName()
  };
},

As you can see, the only difference is that now we get the initial inputValue from CollectionStore.

Next, let's update the handleFormSubmit() method by using the following...

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Artemij Fedosejev is a technical lead living in London, United Kingdom. He is a self-taught web developer who has been a web developer since the early 2000s. Artemij earned his BSc in computer science from University College Cork, Ireland. He participated in the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, where he built and launched a website that received the Most Innovative Project award. Artemij has played a key role in creating frontend architecture using React.js and Flux for various websites. Artemij created a number of open source projects, including Snapkite Engine, Snapkite Stream Client, and other projects.
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