Get Selected Text in React

Use the Selection API to get selected text in React and show a social media sharing tooltip.

We'll walk through how to use the Selection API to listen for selected text, how to build out a dynamically placed tooltip based on selected text location using Tailwind, and how to share the selected text on click to Twitter.

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Tutorial: https://spacejelly.dev/posts/how-to-s...
Code: https://github.com/colbyfayock/my-hig...
Demo: https://my-highlight-share.vercel.app/


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