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/The Problem: Managing User Input the Hard Way
The Problem: Managing User Input the Hard Way
Learn why handling form inputs directly through the DOM becomes messy and unreliable as our app grows, and how React’s approach simplifies everything.
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Forms are the backbone of user interaction — whether users are signing up, logging in, or filtering search results, everything begins with user input. In traditional JavaScript, we rely on querying the DOM and manually extracting values, but as the number of fields grows, maintaining and synchronizing them becomes chaotic.
Before learning how React makes this seamless, let’s revisit how we traditionally manage form data in plain HTML and JavaScript — and why it quickly falls apart.
The problem with traditional form handling
In plain JavaScript, managing form input values usually looks ...