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I came just to find out what a 'toast' is in this context. I'm understanding it's a 'little popup'... is that right?


Yes, named that way because they pop up (mostly) from the bottom like the bread when a toaster is finished.

https://web.dev/articles/building/a-toast-component


The difference being that the toast is real


A 'toast message' is a little popup that contains information for the user.

For some weird reason a lot of standard UX patterns are named after food. Hamburger menu, kebab menu, toast message, chips/pills, snackbar etc etc


I attempted to explain this using the existing definitions, and they didn't quite fit!




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