2 posts tagged with "React"

Having a Popover - component that handles positioning, portals, click-outside, focus trapping, and transitions (see how in 5 Things I Learned Building My Own Popover) - unlocks a solid foundation for building more complex UI components on top of it.

The first natural candidate for that is a Dropdown - one of the key building blocks of modern UIs.

Building a Popover from scratch taught me more about the browser than any tutorial ever did.