How to Build Contact Forms with Next.js 13, React, and Tailwind CSS
Building a contact form with Next.js 13, React, and Tailwind CSS is a great way to create a dynamic and responsive form for your website. In this article, we will walk through the process of building a simple contact form using these technologies.
Step 1: Setting Up the Project
The first step is to set up a new Next.js project. You can do this by running the following commands in your terminal:
npm init next-app my-contact-form
cd my-contact-form
Once your project is set up, you can install the necessary dependencies:
npm install react react-dom tailwindcss
Step 2: Creating the Contact Form Component
Next, create a new file called ContactForm.js in the components directory of your project. This file will contain the code for our contact form component. Here is an example of how you can structure the component:
import React from 'react';
const ContactForm = () => {
return (
);
};
export default ContactForm;
Step 3: Styling the Contact Form with Tailwind CSS
To style our contact form, we can use Tailwind CSS. First, we need to import Tailwind’s base, components, and utilities styles in our main CSS file. Create a new file called styles.css in the styles directory of your project and add the following code:
@import 'tailwindcss/base';
@import 'tailwindcss/components';
@import 'tailwindcss/utilities';
Next, we can apply Tailwind classes to our contact form component to style it. Here’s an example of how you can do this:
const ContactForm = () => {
return (
);
};
Step 4: Integrating the Contact Form into Your Next.js App
Finally, you can integrate the contact form component into your Next.js app. To do this, simply import the ContactForm component into the page where you want to display the form and add it to the render method. Here’s an example of how you can do this:
import ContactForm from '../components/ContactForm';
const ContactPage = () => {
return (
Contact Us
);
};
export default ContactPage;
With these steps, you have successfully built a contact form with Next.js 13, React, and Tailwind CSS. You can now use this form to gather information from your website visitors and improve their interactive experience.
i keep getting error 404 on /api/contact even tho i've added the folder/file inside of pp directory (nextjs13)
Which coding assistant you're using? It's just awesome.
having an absolute nightmare with this, been getting endless 404's back from my routes – even in postman, no matter how i configure the url
it works thank man
What do i need to add to my .env.local file?
Hi Adam, do you know how to send attachment like .pdf via contact form using App router?
Thank you. I was so caught up trying to learn to transition to the route.js file and the app directory in the new Nextjs will nothing but failure after failure. Didn't think to just move it out altogether and not bother with it.
Thanks a lot everything works !
What needs to be included in the .env file?
Would this be enough?
DB_USER=mymail
DB_PASS=password
Error as
No http methods exported in contact.js