Enhance user experience with Pragmatic drag-and-drop in React: Monitoring all drag-and-drop events

In the third installment of our drag-and-drop series, we delve into the crucial aspect of monitoring drag-and-drop interactions within your React applications. Monitoring these interactions ensures a responsive and intuitive user experience, giving you the ability to track and react to drag events as they unfold.
We’ll start by reviewing what we’ve implemented so far, then explore how to visually indicate when a card or column is being dragged over. We’ll cover the use of card placeholders to enhance visual feedback, and dive into the Monitoring API to validate data as cards are moved. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to efficiently move cards within a column, ensuring that your application remains both functional and user-friendly.
*Timeline:*
00:12 - What we have built
01:16 - Indicate dragging over a card
06:23 - Indicate dragging over a column
13:11 - Indicate on empty column
18:42 - Move with card placeholder
19:40 - Monitoring API
24:07 - Validate data
28:13 - Move card inside a column
32:25 - Wrapping up
As we progress, you’ll gain insights into how to refine the drag-and-drop experience in your React projects, ensuring smooth, real-time interactions that keep users engaged.
Stay tuned for the next video, where we’ll further refine these interactions and continue perfecting your drag-and-drop implementation.
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[@JasonHughes-in7xo]

Thank you for this tutorial, would love to see a repo to play with

[@icodeit.juntao]

Sorry I forgot to post it, you can find the code here: github.com/abruzzi/pdnd-demo

[@sweLogan]

Thanks this helped a lot, but think you should have use Edge (top / bottom) so you can rearange the list

[@icodeit.juntao]

Hi @sweLogan, thanks for the comment. If I'm reordering by calling a backend API, do I still need the edge?

[@Jeevansarees]

Can you share the repository?

[@icodeit.juntao]

github.com/abruzzi/pdnd-demo