Build A Confirmation Modal in React with State Machines By Dave Ceddia August 19, 2020
Ever needed to wire up a confirmation dialog in React? You know the ones: “Really delete this file? Yes / Cancel”
These dialogs tend to follow a consistent pattern:
User tries to do dangerous/destructive action
Modal pops up asking if they’re
really really sure
On
then hide the modal after the action is done
I worked on an app that had a need to protect dangerous actions like Delete, in a few places across the app.
The asynchronous nature of the flow (Confirm, wait until done, then close) meant that there would be plenty of finicky