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Tip Calculator App using React, Styled Components, Grid, Mobile-First

react, styled-components
Shivam•520
@shivjoshi1996
A solution to the Tip calculator app challenge
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Hi everyone,

I used React (currently learning) to build this app. I found it quite challenging due to being new to React and not knowing how to do certain things that I know how to do in vanilla JavaScript.

A few questions that would really help me out:

  1. What is the best way to show which button has been selected? I thought about storing something in the state of the "tip selection" component, but I'm not sure what I should be storing, and how I would dynamically change the colour based on which button has been stored in state (would I change the prop of the selected button somehow?)

  2. Any improvements in how I have organized my React code would be great, primarily the way I am utilizing components and props (I know my styled-component and JS code looks quite messy in the calculator component).

  3. I also got ESLint errors "JSX Props should not use functions", but I'm not sure how else I would achieve this functionality without sending some of the functions down to child components. Any ideas on how I could avoid this error?

  4. I didn't get around to adding the error states, opting to try to conduct validation in the input fields instead. If I were to add error states, would I simply use state to check if the input is valid (turning state to either true or false), and then use a conditional in the JSX to display the error message if state says the input is invalid?

Any other comments would also be appreciated!

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