Easy React Modal with Tailwindcss 😎

Modals are essential nowdays and i've seen alot of ways to create them, Today i wanted to create my first post here using only reactjs & Tailwindcss.

Here is what we are going to build

Let's go

Create React Project
First, Create a simple react project using create-react-app cli

npx  Create-react-app  react-modal

import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <header className="App-header">
        <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
        <p>
          Edit <code>src/App.js</code> and save to reload.
        </p>
        <a
          className="App-link"
          href="https://reactjs.org"
          target="_blank"
          rel="noopener noreferrer"
        >
          Learn React
        </a>
      </header>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Lets do some cleaning

import "./App.css";

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Hello world</h1>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Lets add Tailwindcss
as it shows on Tailwindcss doc

npm install -D tailwindcss

npx tailwindcss init

Configure your template

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  content: [
    "./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

and Add Tailwind directives to your CSS

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

We are done lets start our app

npm run start

As you can see everything works perfectly now 👍

import "./App.css";

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1 className="text-center text-2xl text-red-500">Hello world</h1>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

In this tutorial we will be needing two things button & the modal it self

so lets create them this way

import "./App.css";
import ReactModal from "./ReactModal";

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="flex flex-col justify-center items-center h-screen w-screen">
      <ReactModal/>
      <button className="py-2 px-4 border rounded-md text-blue-100 bg-blue-400 hover:bg-blue-500 hover:text-white duration-75">
        Click here
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

you can customize the button as you like 😋

now we add a useState to control the modal

const [visible, setIsVisible] = useState(false);

go to ReactModal component and create it

import React from "react";

const ReactModal = ({ isOpen, onClose }) => {
  if (!isOpen) return null;

  return (
    <div
      onClick={onClose}
      className="fixed z-50 bg-black bg-opacity-40 top-0 bottom-0 left-0 right-0 w-full h-full flex justify-center items-center"
    >
      <div
        onClick={(e) => {
          e.stopPropagation();
        }}
        className="bg-white p-2 lg:p-5 rounded-xl shadow-md"
      >
        <div onClick={onClose} className="text-2xl cursor-pointer w-fit h-fit">
          X
        </div>
        <div className=" my-2">This is my Awsome Modal 😎</div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

export default ReactModal;

We pass isOpen & onClose to the parent so we use them on the useState to control the Modal visibility

notice that i added onClick

on the main div so you dismiss the modal when you click anywhere

onClick={onClose}

and stopPropagation on the inner div so it wont dismiss when you click on the inner modal

onClick={(e) => {e.stopPropagation();}}

ofcourse you can change the ❌ to a fancy SVG icon i just wanted to make it look nifty using the emoji 😋

*Finally in the parent div *

import { useState } from "react";
import "./App.css";
import ReactModal from "./ReactModal";

function App() {
  const [visible, setIsVisible] = useState(false);

  return (
    <div className="flex flex-col justify-center items-center h-screen w-screen">
      <ReactModal isOpen={visible} onClose={() => setIsVisible(false)} />
      <button
        onClick={() => setIsVisible(true)}
        className="py-2 px-4 border rounded-md text-blue-100 bg-blue-400 hover:bg-blue-500 hover:text-white duration-75"
      >
        Click here
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

and now you have a customized fast easy and cool looking modal without using any packages... ofcourse you can do that without Tailwindcss too

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