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Edit tasks

Edit tasks

In this session, you'll learn how to build the functionality to edit tasks within our To-Do List application. To do that, we will create a new state, Editing Task ID, inside the Task List component. That state will refer to the ID of the task being edited. we will initiate it to null as no task is being edited when the application loads first time. If state value is equal to null, then we will show the TaskItem component and hide the EditTaskForm component. When the user clicks the Edit button inside a task item, then the state of EditingTaskID will be updated to the ID of that task. This will be triggered by SetEditingTaskID, which is passed down to the TaskItem component. Now, since the state value is not equal to null, we will show the EditTaskForm component instead of the TaskItem component. Once the user finishes editing the task and presses the tick button, EditingTaskID is updated again to null, as no task is being edited anymore. The update is triggered by SetEditingTaskId…

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