Use react-simple-format in React web

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Abstract

Hello everyone it’s me candle. In this article we will use simple-format in react. Simple format is famous for Ruby on Rails and is commonly used. React has a legacy react-simple-format and 16g’s made. The legacy lib is not useful, so I choose 16g’s made.

https://github.com/16g/react-simple-format

Condition

Nothing

Create project

If you already have a React project please use it.
If not, use the following command to create it.

create-react-app simple_format_sample
cd simple_format_sample

How to use react-simple-format

First install it.

yarn add @16g/react-simple-format

Open a appropriate component file. I write it in src/App.js.

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import SimpleFormat from '@16g/react-simple-format'

class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
      content: '',
    }
    this.handleFormInputChanged = this.handleFormInputChanged.bind(this)
  }

  handleFormInputChanged(event) {
    this.setState({
      [event.target.name]: event.target.value,
    })
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>
        <div>Simple Format Sample</div>
        <textarea
          name="content"
          value={this.state.content}
          onChange={this.handleFormInputChanged}
          style={{
            width: '400px',
            height: '300px',
          }}
        />
        <div style={{ marginTop: '100px' }}>
          <SimpleFormat text={this.state.content} />
        </div>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export default App

The writing about “simple format” is these two parts.
Import it here.

import SimpleFormat from '@16g/react-simple-format'

The value input with textarea is displayed via simple format.

  <SimpleFormat text={this.state.content} />

It is convenient.

Conclusion

Let’s use simple format.