Create your own context (or right-click) menu in React with this detailed guide to help users access custom functions on your web app.
According to Wikipedia, a context menu (also called right-click menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which the menu belongs.
If you right-click on your browser while visiting a website, you can see your OS’s native context menu. You can save, print, create a QR code for the page, and much more. You should also see different options depending on where you are clicking on the page; if you highlight text, you can see options like copy, paste, and cut.
You may also see some customized context menus, like on email or list applications, and collaboration apps like Trello and Notion. These right-click menus give users more options while they are using the app.
In this post, we will explore how you can create a right-click menu in React, shortcuts to activate right-click menus, how to create a custom context menu hook, and some packages if you don’t want to implement them yourself.
You can see the demo of the project below, and check out the full code on Github or the deployed website.
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