Discussion on: React: Using portals to make a modal popup

[Andrew Bone]

You can use this code and pass in a form as the child.

[Nirjal Paudel]

The method is techically correct but not "REACT esk". If I would use, say email and password field, in the form and make it a controlled component by putting value and setValue. Each time the state changes due to onChange, the code freezes for split second and UX will be poor

[Andrew Bone]

That's React's official documentation. A redraw, due to state change, should not cause anything to freeze.

[Andrew Bone]

Here's an example