How to properly validate input values with React.J

Question

I have a simple form. All of the components and state are held in the Page component. There are 2 display headers and 3 input fields. The first input is supposed to be text, and the second and third are supposed to be ints. When the user inputs the wrong type of data, I want to have an error message pop up next to the input field. My questions relate to best practices in React.JS

Who decides that the value is in valid? I suppose that the only job of the input field is to direct the value back to component holding the state, so does this mean that only Page can determine if a value is valid?

How should I then have the pop up appear? Should Page have to trigger a new boolean state element that will be passed through perp that will tell Adaptive_Input to reveal the error message?

JSFiddle

JS:

/**
 * @jsx React.DOM
 */
var Adaptive_Input = React.createClass({ 
    handle_change: function(){
        var new_text = this.refs.input.getDOMNode().value;
        this.props.on_Input_Change(new_text);
    },
    render: function(){
        return (
                <div className='adaptive_placeholder_input_container'>
                    <input 
                        className="adaptive_input"
                        type="text" 
                        required="required" 
                        onChange= {this.handle_change}
                        ref="input"
                    ></input>
                    <label
                        className="adaptive_placeholder"
                        alt={this.props.initial}
                        placeholder={this.props.focused}
                    ></label>
                </div>              
                );
    }
});

var Form = React.createClass({
    render: function(){
        return (
                <form>
                    <Adaptive_Input
                        initial={'Name Input'}
                        focused={'Name Input'}
                        on_Input_Change={this.props.handle_text_input}
                    />
                    <Adaptive_Input
                        initial={'Value 1'}
                        focused={'Value 1'}
                        on_Input_Change={this.props.handle_value_1_input}
                    />
                    <Adaptive_Input
                        initial={'Value 2'}
                        focused={'Value 2'}
                        on_Input_Change={this.props.handle_value_2_input}
                    />
                </form>
                );
    }
});

var Page = React.createClass({
    getInitialState: function(){
        return {
            Name : "No Name",
            Value_1 : '0',
            Value_2 : '0',
            Display_Value: '0'
        };
    },
    handle_text_input: function(new_text){
        this.setState({
                Name: new_text
            });
    },
    handle_value_1_input: function(new_value){
        console.log("===");
        var updated_display = parseInt(new_value) + parseInt(this.state.Value_2);
        updated_display = updated_display.toString();
        this.setState({
                Display_Value: updated_display 
            });
    },
    handle_value_2_input: function(new_value){
        var updated_display = parseInt(this.state.Value_1) + parseInt(new_value);
        updated_display = updated_display.toString();
        this.setState({
                Display_Value: updated_display
            });
    },
    render: function(){
        return(
                <div>
                    <h2>{this.state.Name}</h2>
                    <h2>Value 1 + Value 2 = {this.state.Display_Value}</h2>
                    <Form
                        handle_text_input={this.handle_text_input}
                        handle_value_1_input = {this.handle_value_1_input}
                        handle_value_2_input = {this.handle_value_2_input}
                    />
                </div>
        );
    }
});

React.renderComponent(<Page />, document.body);

Answer 1

Use onChange={this.handleChange.bind(this, "name") method and value={this.state.fields["name"]} on input text field and below that create span element to show error, see the below example.

export default class Form extends Component {

  constructor(){
    super()
    this.state ={
       fields: {
         name:'',
         email: '',
         message: ''
       },
       errors: {},
       disabled : false
    }
  }

  handleValidation(){
       let fields = this.state.fields;
       let errors = {};
       let formIsValid = true;

       if(!fields["name"]){
          formIsValid = false;
          errors["name"] = "Name field cannot be empty";
       }

       if(typeof fields["name"] !== "undefined" && !fields["name"] === false){
          if(!fields["name"].match(/^[a-zA-Z]+$/)){
             formIsValid = false;
             errors["name"] = "Only letters";
          }
       }

       if(!fields["email"]){
          formIsValid = false;
          errors["email"] = "Email field cannot be empty";
       }

       if(typeof fields["email"] !== "undefined" && !fields["email"] === false){
          let lastAtPos = fields["email"].lastIndexOf('@');
          let lastDotPos = fields["email"].lastIndexOf('.');

          if (!(lastAtPos < lastDotPos && lastAtPos > 0 && fields["email"].indexOf('@@') === -1 && lastDotPos > 2 && (fields["email"].length - lastDotPos) > 2)) {
             formIsValid = false;
             errors["email"] = "Email is not valid";
           }
      }

      if(!fields["message"]){
         formIsValid = false;
         errors["message"] = " Message field cannot be empty";
      }

      this.setState({errors: errors});
      return formIsValid;
  }

  handleChange(field, e){
      let fields = this.state.fields;
      fields[field] = e.target.value;
      this.setState({fields});
  }

  handleSubmit(e){
      e.preventDefault();
      if(this.handleValidation()){
          console.log('validation successful')
        }else{
          console.log('validation failed')
        }
  }

  render(){
    return (
      <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit.bind(this)} method="POST">
          <div className="row">
            <div className="col-25">
                <label htmlFor="name">Name</label>
            </div>
            <div className="col-75">
                <input type="text" placeholder="Enter Name"  refs="name" onChange={this.handleChange.bind(this, "name")} value={this.state.fields["name"]}/>
                <span style={{color: "red"}}>{this.state.errors["name"]}</span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="row">
            <div className="col-25">
              <label htmlFor="exampleInputEmail1">Email address</label>
            </div>
            <div className="col-75">
                <input type="email" placeholder="Enter Email" refs="email" aria-describedby="emailHelp" onChange={this.handleChange.bind(this, "email")} value={this.state.fields["email"]}/>
                <span style={{color: "red"}}>{this.state.errors["email"]}</span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="row">
            <div className="col-25">
                <label htmlFor="message">Message</label>
            </div>
            <div className="col-75">
                <textarea type="text" placeholder="Enter Message" rows="5" refs="message" onChange={this.handleChange.bind(this, "message")} value={this.state.fields["message"]}></textarea>
                <span style={{color: "red"}}>{this.state.errors["message"]}</span>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div className="row">
            <button type="submit" disabled={this.state.disabled}>{this.state.disabled ? 'Sending...' : 'Send'}</button>
          </div>
      </form>
    )
  }
}