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How To Create A Context Menu With React Hooks.

Nikita Mingaleev
6 min readFeb 10, 2020

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By the end of this article you will create your own context menu with React Hooks.

Create A New React Project

To create a new application we will use Create React App. In order to do it you’ll need to have Node ≥ 8.10 and npm ≥ 5.6 installed on your machine.

Run the following command in your command line:

npx create-react-app react-context-menu

After running the command open the created folder and run npm start:

cd react-context-menu
npm start

You will see the following:

Menu Containers

Since we want to have multiple menus at the same let’s create some simple containers to keep them.

Let’s create components folder inside src folder. Inside that folder we will create another folder called Container wich is responsible for keeping our container component. Inside this folder let’s add index.jsx and index.css files.

You should have the following structure:

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