As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or radio button again!

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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.

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