What is React Beautiful DnD Library

Benefits, Implementation, and Example Code

Fahad Ahmad
8 min readOct 10, 2024
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Introduction

Drag and drop (or DnD) abilities are often integrated into modern web applications nowadays. In the context of file sharing and lists, drag-and-drop was introduced to make use of content as easy as possible for users while adapting the interaction to be as easy as possible for complex interactions.

RBDnD is one of the popular libraries to make DnD in React To achieve DnD functionality in React, you can use the library called React Beautiful DnD. Atlassian has come up with this library that has implemented a very basic API but has very competitive functions that enable the generation of simple and, at the same time, complex drag-and-drop functions. It supports smooth dragging as well as dropping scenarios, it comes with a lot of peculiarities regarding slime objects' edges and permits different scenarios to be implemented.

In this article, you will be able to learn the advantages of using the React Beautiful DnD library, how to install and set it up, how to use it in practice, and several practical examples of how other people have used the package.

Main Points

  1. What is React Beautiful DnD?
  2. Benefits of React Beautiful DnD

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Fahad Ahmad
Fahad Ahmad

Written by Fahad Ahmad

Writer, Software Developer, Founder: Pulse Of Innovation https://medium.com/pulse-of-innovation Subscribe to Substack: https://pulseofinnovation.substack.com/

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