How to Implement Comment & Reply Functionality to a Post in a Social Media Feed App

Prathap
1 min readSep 7, 2024

In today’s video article, I’ll walk you through the step-by-step implementation of adding comment & reply functionality to posts in a React application. We’ll learn how to display a comment box when the user clicks on the comment button and add comments by pressing the Enter key or clicking a button.

We’ll start by setting up the toggleCommentBox function to control the visibility of the comment box for each post. Next, we'll initialize a state variable using the useState hook to keep track of the active comment box. I'll also show you how to manage the toggle behavior, allowing the comment box to open and close dynamically.

Additionally, we’ll look at adding some dummy comment data to the existing posts and implement the logic to add comments.

We also implement adding reply to comment functionality as well in this video.

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