React: How to get input value (dynamic text input field)

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Getting input value from HTML input element isn't straightforward, especially if you're learning React for the first time. You need to know how useState hook works, and how React updates DOM.

React Tutorial Chapters (it's a bit meticulous, but that's what helps people open the right chapter when searching for something specific on Google):
00:00 How to get text input value in react
00:20 Creating useState object to control input value (val and setVal setter function)
00:26 how to usestate to add dynamic input value in react
00:48 Replacing input value to dynamic val object from useState
01:13 Creating a clickable Button in react's main component
01:22 how to create an event handler function for button click
02:23 Create onChange handler for input box text value (changes and updates when typed)
02:26 how to create event function to handle change in dynamic text input box
03:01 Using onChange event's Event.Target.Value to update React's input value state

Why you can't simply type into react input box? Well, that's just how React works. To get input value you first have to wire it into a state variable using useState hook, as follows:

const [val, setVal] = useState("Default input value");

You will need to use setVal function here, every time a new character is typed into the dynamic input component.

Then, track onChange event on the input component. Inside the onChange event, assign event.target.value to the state value we created earlier with useState hook.

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