Drag and drop in react was a lot easier than I thought

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[@dhunsworth]

I always had in my mind that this would be super complex and definitely a situation to go looking for some package that would make it reasonable. Thanks for showing us this!

[@WebDevCody]

Glad it was helpful!

[@buraksurumcuoglu8303]

I just got out of a meeting on my dev job and we talked about a new page with drag and drop functionality, your timing is incredible 😅

[@blackpurple9163]

It's KZbin algorithm at work

[@amarcampbell4542]

Perfect timing 👌

[@saman6199]

This is awesome, I always avoided to even try this feature, because I thought it could be complicated. But you made it look so easy with your walkthrough. Will definitely give it a shot. Thanks for your effort 😊

[@Earth_Elegance_]

seriously. me too

[@selahadinjemal7138]

I just saw this in a job posting as a best to have skill and wanted to check it out. simple, effective, no blabber. Thanks!

[@51Grimz]

Useful video on a quick and simple native drag and drop without any libraries or anything! Follow up to this would be dragging and dropping in any index of the droppable area. Say you drag Widget C in between Widget A and B. Not just appending it to the end.

[@estoupensa27]

Do you know how to drag and drop inside of the droppable area?

[@saladin_advanced]

Best video explaining drag n drop.

[@Earth_Elegance_]

Thank you. This is easy than I thought. I realized it because of you

[@Rico-cp4xp]

Been looking into dnd lately, crazy how simple that is. Great video as always 👍

[@Gabrielmo00]

Best tutotial! I have had trouble with react drag and drop libraries in the past. I was in need to start a new project that woul require a simple drag and drop, and your example give me the kickstart that I need. Thanks man!

[@nonstopper]

Now make it re orderable

[@zzzyyyxxx]

DND Kit makes this super easy to do

[@harithmu]

you have a repo? because i find it very hard to do it where its something like in vid. (drag n drop but original item still there)

[@eveguelarocha9961]

I think just last week, I needed this kind of code in react, I ended up searching for code then copied and pasted it and just changed variables and stuff and it worked, but this video made me realize I need to recode it and do it with my own logic to improve my skills, Thanks mate! I thought it was so complicated, was thinking to use, dom manipulation etc but i think, i think too much on the problem. Thank you again, will keep following your page for more advice !

[@ifeanachofavour409]

Hi Mind sharing the resource to the code you found.

[@FXTripazha]

Easier than I expected, thanks! Subscribed

[@Vimal-tr3tl]

Minimal much needed. Thank you.

[@matze489]

this is amazing, i thought i would need to use some lib todo that but with knowing these events its actually pretty easy todo it on you own

[@ilovelctr]

Wow, thanks a ton for this splendid tutorial! I didn't think this could be implemented using such exquisitely clean code, and thought that it might end up as equally annoying as if otherwise built via vanilla JavaScript and real DOM manipulation. Absolutely appreciate how elegant this is.

[@siva002]

So much easier to understand. Thank you. You saved me the trouble of going with react-dnd or dnd-kit which are very sophisticated, but overkill. As long as we don't need mobile or too much cross browser compatibility ( for example, internal websites), this is more than enough.

[@glcorreia]

I thought this would require plugins and a lot more code. Thanks for sharing

[@ThisIsLiving__]

I have always had a project in mind requiring me to use this feature - but eventually, the complexity of my ambition made me never do it but I ll definitely do it now

[@ZACKDEV]

Wow you made learning this super easy, I was looking into this feature recently with a lot of complicated topics. This make is super simple for us to recreate it and experiment!

[@andlukas]

i want to reproduce the behavior of google calendar, when you drag the amount of hours of an event

[@rredington305]

I've got this part sorted 👍🏼 next im working on a DnD sortable list using standard React without success. Pls make a DnD sortable list video 🙏🏻

[@blu5037]

Nice video! Never implemented this feature, but for a long time I thought we'd have to track the cursor position and everything. Cool to see that it can be implemented with little lines of code.

[@MahmoudBA]

you made it look so easy great work!

[@saladin_advanced]

It's kind easy finally. thx.

[@Ayush_Bob]

That was suprisingly easy thanks a lot and easy to build upon

[@hellome3046]

thank you very much

[@ameen8891]

Thanks BRoo

[@tiktalk4573]

Thanks this is useful for us!

[@noahwinslow3252]

I've been interested in making a game like stacklands for a while, perfect fun project with drag and drop

[@ReDestro69]

Enjoyed this video. Apparently, I'm working on a client project where I'm building a module very similar to DocuSign. I'll be dragging different fields onto the document and assigning users to each field to fill out/sign.

[@TheSourLemonz]

Very informative, nice work

[@MubashirullahD]

That was so cool. And Im actually going to use for a professional use case. Need to build something to match pictures with words.

[@MubashirullahD]

WIsh the code was on a snippet :)

[@TheBswan]

Dnd-kit is the best library for this

[@ZACKDEV]

LOL WHAT THE HECK! it literally is the best!

[@pauloricardomaltaleal3558]

How can i pick the position when drop, according to dimensions of father component?

[@xeliqa3921]

how convenient. Am actually looking to build a project with this functionality, similar to a trello board.

[@haze4828]

Would be pretty cool to make it remove the item from the original container once the drop has occurred, although I don't know how long that would take me to figure out 😅

[@vydikvaidya654]

Can I know how to display the HTML code for the item when it's dropped

[@estheryang6450]

Thank you for the explanation! Will love to ask what is the name of the extension you use to show component?

[@dr.livesey5157]

Thanks!

[@ryanwoods3333]

great video! would you consider doing a video in React where a user can click on a product for example and show a pop up modal? So there would be multiple modals with different content. Not sure how to do this in pure React without installing some NPM package...

[@WebDevCody]

thank you for the super thanks! I could potentially do that for a react challenge video when I get time

[@waytonirvana6426]

clean and helpfull thank you

[@chesterxp508]

GoodJob!

[@panagiotiskyriacou61]

imagine that when drop widget tothe left create different categories that group the widget. So also the category component is a drop target. It is possible the category (drop target)be also a draggable item so you can merge two categories?

[@eip408]

Awesome stuff! I was also looking for a way to do this drag n drop functionality because I was doing a personal project like shopify customizer. Thanks!

[@maxclouatre2703]

Love this! Custom starter or did you find this in the Vite docs? Thanks!

[@WebDevCody]

This is a vite setup

[@jorims8537]

nice idea with using the state and just appending elements. However, the usecase for this is very limited. If the position (order) matters in which I would drag my element in, it would obviously not work.

[@ifeanachofavour409]

Hi that is really cool and I do currently have need for a drag and drop implementation. Wanted to ask if you could attach a link to the documentation for this. Hoping to hear from you soon. Thanks

[@GabrielWis]

Hi ! I have a problem. When I writing ([]) at state, show error "string is undefined".

[@r1nzai]

I'd rather use react-beautiful-dnd which is used internally for trello and jira as well, and is like super easy to implement

[@keifer7813]

What's the cost though? In terms of bundle size and page speed?

[@Victor-dt1uq]

It is no longer maintained though :(

[@juanorjuela7161]

Hello, I really liked your video. I would like to know if there is a repository where I could see the code better or collaborate since a couple of ideas occur to me.

[@ArynKr]

Loved it... Btw what color scheme are you using on vs code?

[@WebDevCody]

bearded theme stained blue

[@ArynKr]

@@WebDevCody Thanks 😀

[@deepmane5845]

locally it is easier how about on server save newly formed/droped data to sever but it takes time meanwhile on ui it happens quickly so my app is todo app in which task are divided such way that complete and incomplete if i drag incomplete task to complete it changes data to true on server using redux but on ui it takes time to load again how to deal with my app i hope you understand

[@amirshaban7115]

Could someone help me out with making it functional with touchEvents instead of dragEvents?

[@criztiandev]

Hi I just want to ask, how about free drag, could you make a video about it ?

[@omomer3506]

Nice, but something i didnt catch, the e.datatranfer carries the actual widget with all of its properties and styles? Ir is something else going jn

[@WebDevCody]

It might have a reference to the underlying dragged element, but it’s more for setting custom metadata you can use later when dropping

[@oddsquadd]

the issue is that it is not working with mui icons

[@ZeNiTh_2K]

Out of context but which VS Code theme is that ?

[@WebDevCody]

Bearded theme stained blue

[@CaliburPANDAs]

Have you tried React dndkit?

[@WebDevCody]

Not yet

[@oguzhan2393]

how can I drop the div whereever I want.

[@appstuff6565]

but how do you persist this?

[@muhammad-shahin]

can I get this code? did you upload it on github?

[@appstuff6565]

How can we store this new arrangement in a database so it persists?

[@appstuff6565]

you loved the vcomment but can you please guide on something, i am building a linktree clone as a study learnning and i have tables users and links, i fetch links from supabase for that particular user. My main issue is when i fetch links i want them to be fetched as i arrange them in the list. How do i persist that? Thanks.

[@Tregadbm]

Wait, how are your elements fully opaque while dragging and animate back on unsuccessful drag? Could it be your browser? I'm using chrome.

[@WebDevCody]

Must be built into the browser because I didn’t add styles

[@SMTarcisio]

Hi, I'm from Brazil, I'm new in Javascript and React Js, cool video, so perfectly understandable but I'm trying to make a different thing, an image be drag n drop inside a div and this div has limit of the corners, when the user drag it around off limit of the corner it brings the image back to limit of the div without any package, can you help me with this?

[@WebDevCody]

I’m not sure I don’t work much with drag and drop

[@artistry7919]

How can we make a drag and drop feature keyboard accessible?

[@WebDevCody]

Not sure, maybe enter to select the item, then left and right arrows to move it around between drop zones?

[@DekanTrue111]

Well does it work with touch? In the past I have had to use react dnd with two logic handlers. Is this not needed anymore?

[@WebDevCody]

Oh I didn’t try with touch, good point

[@micheledibe]

Nice tutorial, well explained, although this implementation, which the native Drag&Drop, is pointless since since is not supported on mobile devices. In other words, lets be honest, we gonna need third party libraries for ever 😂

[@jittojoyes7533]

Are you using any package here, like react dnd

[@WebDevCody]

Nope

[@anagocode]

is this react-dnd or react-beautiful-dnd ?

[@WebDevCody]

This is just html events I think

[@shubhampawar7921]

Doesn't work on mobile though.

[@umargulzar2982]

can you please provide GITHUB link for source code?

[@WebDevCody]

sorry I don't think I have it, it's too much work for me to upload code for every single video. Just learn what I taught and re-implement is my suggestion.

[@SeibertSwirl]

Good job babe!! Also first!

[@WebDevCody]

thanks babe! you're back getting first place comments again

[@YuriC.]

That's not fair, she knows when a video is about to drop 🧐

[@WebDevCody]

@@YuriC. insider trading 😂

[@someunknowngirl7208]

Very basic and odd example specially when u do setWidgets and spredding state instead of using cb with prev param

[@WebDevCody]

How’s that odd? You don’t need the callback anytime you update state

[@muruga3603]