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Add Zod validation to message form

Add Zod validation to message form

Hello and welcome. In this session, I will guide you through the process of enhancing our simple message form by integrating Zod for powerful and declarative schema-based validation. You'll practice how to replace manual state management using useState with the more robust React Hook form library. By connecting Zod with React Hook form, you will create a form that is not only easier to manage, but also provides clear, user-friendly validation feedback. Let's get started. Okay, let's add the necessary imports for our new form validation. UseForm from React Hook Form, z from Zod, and ZodResolver to connect them. Alright, let's import some reusable components and styles now. This will help us keep our code nice and clean and also maintainable in the long run. We've done this in previous forms, so this should be a familiar process for you. Here I am adding one more component import, Course Card. While this component isn't directly related to the form itself, it is part of a larger UI…

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