Mastering Material UI with React Hook Form: A Comprehensive Guide

Getting Started with Material UI and React Hook Form

Are you tired of struggling to integrate Material UI with React Hook Form? This tutorial will show you how to build a complete form with the most-used input components provided by Material UI, including text input, radio input, dropdown, date, checkbox, and slider. You’ll learn how to set up React Hook Form, create reusable components, and refactor your form for maximum efficiency.

Why Choose React Hook Form?

React Hook Form is one of the most popular libraries for handling forms in React, and for good reason. Its straightforward APIs make creating and managing forms easy, and its Hook-based approach requires minimal code. Plus, it seamlessly integrates with various form validation libraries and UI libraries like Material UI, Ant Design, and Bootstrap.

Setting Up React Hook Form

To get started, we’ll import the useForm Hook and destructure the utilities from it. Then, we’ll create a simple form component with a single text input.

import { useForm } from 'eact-hook-form';

const { register, handleSubmit } = useForm();

const MyForm = () => {
  return (

  );
};

Building Reusable Components

Next, we’ll create reusable components for each input type, including text input, radio input, dropdown, date, checkbox, and slider. We’ll use the Controller component from React Hook Form to wrap our Material UI components, making it easy to access the ref and manage our form state.

import { Controller } from 'eact-hook-form';
import { TextField } from '@material-ui/core';

const TextInput = ({ control, name }) => {
  return (
     (
        
      )}
    />
  );
};

Refactoring Our Form for Efficiency

Once we have our reusable components, we’ll refactor our form to make it more efficient and streamlined. We’ll use the Controller component to solve the problem of accessing the ref of the form, and we’ll export our input components to separate files for maximum reusability.

Implementing Material UI Input Components

We’ll cover how to implement each Material UI input component, including dropdown, date, checkbox group, and slider. We’ll also discuss how to handle complex cases, such as creating a group of checkboxes and setting the selected values as an array of selected items.

• Dropdown: We’ll use the Controller component to wrap the Material UI Select component.
• Date: We’ll use the Material UI DatePicker component and handle the date changes using the register utility.
• Checkbox Group: We’ll create a reusable component for checkbox groups and use the Controller component to manage the checked values.
• Slider: We’ll use the Material UI Slider component and handle the value changes using the register utility.

Putting it All Together

Finally, we’ll put all our components together to create a complete form that takes advantage of all the reusable components we’ve made. We’ll see how to use the Controller component to log the values to the console when the form is submitted.

import React from 'eact';
import { useForm } from 'eact-hook-form';
import TextInput from './TextInput';
import Dropdown from './Dropdown';
import DateInput from './DateInput';
import CheckboxGroup from './CheckboxGroup';
import SliderInput from './SliderInput';

const MyForm = () => {
  const { register, handleSubmit, control } = useForm();

  const onSubmit = (data) => {
    console.log(data);
  };

  return (