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IQ: Basic event handling

IQ: Basic event handling

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IQ: Basic event handling

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So, the first question is what are events? A user interacts with the web application using clicks, keyboard input and other likewise actions. And these user actions which make the application respond are called events. Just like HTML DOM events, React can perform actions based on the user events. Event declaration in React is different from HTML. React uses the camel case convention instead of lowercase letters. The next question is how can we handle click events in React? To handle the click event, we use the onClick attribute to the respective element. We need to pass a function to the onClick and this function will be called whenever there is a click event on that particular element. So first we have to create a function which should be called on the button click and then we assign this function to the onClick property. So now when the button is clicked, the event will be triggered and the handleClick function will be called. Another question is, can we define the logic which is…

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