Dive into my latest tutorial on the experimental useFormStatus and useFormState hooks! Discover how to enhance your web applications with server-side capabilities, enabling features like comment systems. This comprehensive guide walks you through the installation of these new hooks and demonstrates their potential with a practical example. I tackle the nuances of creating a comment system, showcasing the and progressive enhancement technique-your comments remain interactive even with JavaScript disabled.
📖 Chapters:
00:00 - Intro & What We’ll Build
01:57 - Project Codebase Overview
03:15 - Building The Comments Component
05:00 - Building The Comment Card Component
08:00 - Building The Comment Component
08:55 - Implementing The useFormState hook
10:05 - Overview of Comment Server Actions
16:25 - Building The Edit Comment Component
21:55 - Building The Add Comment Component
26:00 - Building The Vote Component
32:00 - Testing The Functionality & Outro
✅ Key Takeaways:
1. Learn how to build progressively enhanced forms in Next.js
2. Learn how to implement useFormState and useFormStatus hooks
3. Learn how to build comments with create, edit, delete and vote functionality
🔗 Resources:
- Database Session Authentication: • Database Session Authe...
- NextJS App Router: nextjs.org/docs
- Prisma ORM: www.prisma.io/nextjs
- React useFormState Hook: react.dev/reference/react-dom...
- React useFormStatus Hook: react.dev/reference/react-dom...
- Server Actions: nextjs.org/docs/app/api-refer...
- Source code: github.com/taylor-lindores-re...
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments!