Using React Portals

React Portal is a first-class way to render child components into a DOM node outside of the parent DOM hierarchy defined by the component tree hierarchy. The Portal's most common use cases are when the child components need to visually break out of the parent container as shown below.

react-cool-portal is a Hooks-based abstraction over React portals.

Learn about how we can build fully customized, accessible, and better modals in React using a React API called Portals.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at a real world application for React Portals and explain how it can be helpful for solving the overflow:hidden problem on a tooltip example.

Say we need to render a child element into a React application. Easy right? That child is mounted to the nearest DOM element and rendered inside of it as a result. But! What if we want to render that child outside of the div somewhere else?

Modals can be a tricky topic in React because of the way React structures the DOM. If you’re familiar with the basics of React, you will…

We’re excited to announce the release of React v16.0! Among the changes are some long-standing feature requests, including fragments, error boundaries, portals, support for custom DOM attributes, improved server-side rendering, and reduced file size.

I show how to create a modal popup with React, Typescript and the NES.css library to spice things up.

How to Test React components that use React.createPortals

Learn how to build a modal with React Portal.

React portals let your component control any part of your app as if it was its own child element. Pretty neat.

Learn to build real-world applications using modern React! Much more than an intro, you’ll start from the ground up, getting all the way to using the latest features in React, including hooks, effects, context, and portals.

Learn to build real-world applications in React!

Learn about React Portals while building an open source library for a react tooltip component.

In this series, we dive into intermediate React concepts where you'll learn things like, how to use the React Context API, how to make a portal in React, how to use and understand render props as well as animated transitions and interactive animations in React.