Handling events in React is very close to how the events on DOM elements are handled. The biggest difference is, however, that React wraps the native DOM events into SyntheticEvent, making them behave slightly differently than the native events. Consequently, typing form events in React is not the same as native events. In this post, we'll see how to type form events in React on the example of a simple component as well as discuss the most common pitfalls.

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Typing Form Events in React differs from native events, with React providing its own types. In React the event handlers will receive as an argument a React event object, more commonly known as a "synthetic event" In React, the function itself is passed as the event handler instead of its name in string form.

TypeScript: Typing Form Events In React