DRAG TO SELECT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This blog post goes over the end-to-end process of implementing a drag-to-select functionality in React, with code examples and challenges faced along the way. For example, one of the challenges of implementing this functionality was representing user interactions when handling drag selections in multiple directions. To fix this, create a DOMVector class, a custom data type that captures both magnitude and direction, which removes the need for complex state management.