--- title: Data Binding in React | daily.dev description: In React Introduction, we'll first learn how React approaches data binding, and then show you how each form field works. For text inputs, we opt in using the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Data Binding in React | daily.dev og:description: In React Introduction, we'll first learn how React approaches data binding, and then show you how each form field works. For text inputs, we opt in using the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5IK0BrPw8.png og:image:alt: Data Binding in React og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Data Binding in React **[Josh W Comeau](https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau)** · 17 min read · 47 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary In React Introduction, we'll first learn how React approaches data binding, and then show you how each form field works. For text inputs, we opt in using the attribute: Code Playground Try and edit the text in the input. In data-binding lingo, this is known as "one-way" data binding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mystpi** · 0 upvotes > Another great article from Josh! --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#react-hooks](https://daily.dev/tags/react-hooks) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Data Binding in React","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8"},"datePublished":"2023-01-09T19:20:06.200Z","dateModified":"2023-01-09T19:20:06.031Z","description":"In React Introduction, we'll first learn how React approaches data binding, and then show you how each form field works. For text inputs, we opt in using the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ba0fd14b7342c663b75b2b6d36cd0930","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ba0fd14b7342c663b75b2b6d36cd0930","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Josh W Comeau","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Josh W Comeau","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/4a121572d03c40a2bff9e8ed0f0792b5","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":47},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"react,javascript,react-hooks","timeRequired":"PT17M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Josh W Comeau","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Data Binding in React"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/data-binding-in-react-5ik0brpw8","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Another great article from Josh!","datePublished":"2023-01-09T21:55:40.066Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5IK0BrPw8#c-Dkv6sHfa9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MystPi","url":"https://daily.dev/mystpi","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/86574651?v=4"}}]} ```