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πŸš€ Mastering Form Handling in React: Using setValue with useForm! πŸ’»

As developers, one of the essential aspects of working with forms is controlling user inputs efficiently. Using the useForm hook from react-hook-form, we can easily manage forms with simplicity and flexibility.

Here’s a quick example showing how to dynamically update a form input using the setValue function:

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

function MyForm() {
  const { register, setValue } = useForm();

  const updateValue = () => {
    setValue('username', 'newUserName'); // Dynamically update username
  };

  return (
    <form>
      <input {...register('username')} placeholder="Enter Username" />
      <button type="button" onClick={updateValue}>Set Username</button>
    </form>
  );
}

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In this code, clicking the button updates the username field dynamically! πŸ”„ A simple yet powerful way to control form values in React.

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