React-dnd

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What is React-dnd

Why Use React-dnd?

  • Drag and drop is hard to implement properly and HTML5 standards are inconsistent. 😫
  • React-dnd makes it simple yet very capable to make dnd interactions in react pages. 👍🏻
  • It's the best way to implement general use dnd in React. 🔥
  • It's a high order abstraction over dnd methods in browser that is made for react apps.
  • It can support different 'backend' structures like touch and html5

The basic structure

DOM

REACT

VDOM

DnD events

The basic structure

DOM

REACT

VDOM

DnD events

React-Dnd

Backends

Item Types

Monitors

Collectors

Collectors

Drag Sources

Drop Targets

Backends:

  • HTML5: Support HTML5 DnD events
  • Touch: Support touch events on touch devices
  • Test: Supports testing DnD interactions.

Item Types

  • The Source of identity in your DnD interactions
  • They specify what can be dropped on what.
  • They carry information about the dragged item that will be used to finish the drop interaction.

Monitors

  • Communicate to your components what's happening on the DOM side from DnD events
  • Passed into react as context.

Monitors

DOM

DnD events

React-Dnd

Backends

Item Types

Collectors:

  • Functions to turn DnD events, coming from monitor, into react props. 'Collecting' Props.

Drag Sources

  • Your draggable components.
  • Carry information to be passed onto drop targets.

REACT

React-Dnd

Collectors

Drag Sources

Drop Targets

Collectors

Drop Targets

  • Accept certain types of draggable sources

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Playing around with React-dnd

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