I need to push items to my array, but when I console.log this array, it says 'undefined' for the specific value. I'm trying btw to fetch data from firebase storage. How do I correctly add items to an Array
Here is my code:
const [imagelinks, setImagelinks] = React.useState(['']);
const myFunction = () =>{
await storage()
.ref(`${_userid}`)
.list()
.then(result => {
result.items.forEach(async ref => {
await storage()
.ref(ref.fullPath)
.getDownloadURL()
.then(url => {
//get url
setImagelinks([...imagelinks, url]);
console.log('Links: ' + url);
});
});
//there it says undefined when logging...
console.log(imagelinks[0])
});
}
Edit: can I use following?
const imagelinks = [];
//instead of
const [imagelinks, setImagelinks] = useState([]);
Updating state is an asynchronous task. A re-render of the component is required in order to have the updated value. To be sure, add your console outside of myFunction, below the state definition for example:
const [imagelinks, setImagelinks] = React.useState(['']);
console.log(imagelinks)
If you wanna use the result to do some logic (an API call for example), you can use the useEffect hook, like this for example:
useEffect(()=>{
if(imagelinks.length>0){
// do your things, except do not call setImagelinks in here to avoid having a loop because imagelinks is in the dependencies array of useEffect.
}
},[imagelinks])
As the previous answer mentioned, you can't access the new state in the same scope after setting it as it will still have the old value for that specific scope.
If you really need to store and access some value in the same scope you can use useRef hook or you can store the value in a variable in that scope.
Here is an example, but keep in mind that changing the referenced value will not trigger a re-render so this will not replace your useState.
variable example:
let imageLinksArray=[...imagelinks, url] //add this in your function
console.log(imageLinksArray) //you can pass this to the next function
useRef example:
const imagelinksRef = useRef() //add this on top after your useState
...
imageLinksRef.current=[...imagelinks, url] //add this in your function
console.log(imageLinksRef.current) //this will give you the result you're expecting
you can also check out this npm package that let's you access the new state through a ref directly after setting it (if you really need to) https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-usestateref