In this episode, we're setting up the basic booking details form for our appointment booking app. We start by walking through the checkout page and decide to only show the form once a user has picked a date and time slot. That means adding a simple conditional (using an if statement or conditional rendering) to display the form at the right time.
Next, we build out a simple form that includes fields for the user's name and email—totally straightforward, but crucial. We make these inputs accessible by keeping labels for screen readers, style them so they look decent and consistent with the rest of the app, and make sure to change the email field's input type for proper validation.
With those form fields in place, we add a styled 'Make Booking' submit button to wrap things up visually. Rather than letting the form do a normal submit (which would reload the page), we wire it up so that clicking submit triggers a custom method—this way, we can fully control what happens next in JavaScript.
By the end of the video, we've got a form that only shows after picking a date and time, all the fields are connected to our app's data, and the form submission now calls our handler function. In the next episode, we'll actually store that booking in the database, so stay tuned!