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Carl Rippon
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Carl Rippon

Carl Rippon has been in the software industry for over 20 years developing a complex lines of business applications in various sectors. He has spent the last 8 years building single-page applications using a wide range of JavaScript technologies including Angular, ReactJS, and TypeScript. Carl has also written over 100 blog posts on various technologies.
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Using form navigation

In this section, we will use React Router’s Form component to navigate to the products list page when the search criteria are submitted. Form is a wrapper around the HTML form element that handles the form submission on the client side. This will replace the use of useNavigate and simplify the code. Carry out the following steps:

  1. In Header.tsx, start by removing useNavigate from import for the React Router and replace it with the Form component:
    import {
      NavLink,
      Link,
      useSearchParams,
      Form
    } from 'react-router-dom';
  2. In the JSX, replace the form element with React Router’s Form component:
    <Form
      className="relative text-right"
      onSubmit={handleSearchSubmit}
    >
      <input ... />
    </Form>
  3. In the Form element in the JSX, remove the onSubmit handler. Replace this with the following action attribute so that the form is sent to the products...
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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614204

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Carl Rippon

Carl Rippon has been in the software industry for over 20 years developing a complex lines of business applications in various sectors. He has spent the last 8 years building single-page applications using a wide range of JavaScript technologies including Angular, ReactJS, and TypeScript. Carl has also written over 100 blog posts on various technologies.
Read more about Carl Rippon