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Respond to filter form updates

Respond to filter form updates - React.js Tutorial

From the course: React for Web Designers

Respond to filter form updates

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to add the last major feature of our directory, updating the list of people according to the state of the filters. In larger apps or sites when updating filters, we'd probably batch the changes up a little bit and make a call to an API to retrieve the current list of people. In our case, we're just using a blob of data that's always available, so we have quicker access and can do things a little differently. Switching back to the code, I have a snippet in the exercise files of this video, updatePeopleList.js. I've included this inside a class, just to keep certain editors from throwing errors at you for the syntax, but what we really need is just what's inside this class snippet. Let's copy all this stuff and bring it over to the directory.js file. We'll scroll down to our directory component, and I'll paste it in just below update form state. Save it so that Prettier can work its magic, and now let's take a look at what this actually does. So…

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