How To Build A Context Menu In React | React JS Tutorial For Beginners

Published: 10 February 2023
on channel: Jacob Broughton
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A custom context menu can bring your app to new levels, giving users handy shortcuts to functionality that can make their life easier.

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In this tutorial, I go over how to build a custom context menu from scratch using React's included hooks such as useState, useRef, useEffect. No extra libraries are necessary for this. By the way, a context menu is the same thing as a right click menu.

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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - onContextMenu event and some state (App.jsx)
01:07 - Building ContextMenu component
03:07 - Back to App.jsx
04:07 - ContextMenu.css
04:12 - App.jsx toggling / positioning
07:54 - Outro

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