Continue Form Practice

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

This was more trial and error than anything (although there are a lot more errors than I'd hope!) to keep practicing forms in React.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

Yesterday when I did the form, I was happy to get it to work. Now - I have mixed feelings because now that I kinda understand the inner workings, I realize that there is more to it than simply styling the form.

Design Challenges

• In general, I still need to build confidence when to use borders, outline and ring.
• Styling and animating the success message - struggled with this because this is my first time.
• Overall animations. I want to get to the point where the design and the user interactions are fluid.

Logic Challenges

• I was able to abstract the input type='text' into its own component but for the other field types, such as checkboxes and radio, I am still struggling to control them. They react differently to styling so I will have to keep working on them to get confident, same as I did with the text inputs. I will keep working on getting familiar with forms as is, before checking out React form libraries.
• I attempted and failed (again) to use and understand useReducer, but realized I will need two objects to interact - the user input object and the error object, so I went back to using useState instead.
• I also attempted to use useEffect to make errors appear depending on the user input before submit. Opted to have the errors show up on submit instead.