I searched a lot before asking but can't seem to find a solution that works with me.
I have a function that I need to be called after the state is set to the new value.
const onClickCallback = () => {
setState(..., setCallback())
}
const setCallback = () => {
console.log(State) // this prints the old State value
if(State === something){
....
}
}
Eventhough the function is being called as the setState callback, it still gets the older value.
I'm not sure if the problem is from my end or it's just not possible..
Unlike class component's this.setState, function component's useState state updater function doesn't take a second callback argument to be called after any state update.
What you are doing is enqueueing a state update and passing extraneous arguments, one of which is a function that you are immediately invoking, and passing any return value to setState, which will be ignored.
setState(..., setCallback()) // setCallback invoked and result passed
Use an useEffect hook with a dependency on the state to log any state updates.
const onClickCallback = () => {
setState(...);
};
React.useEffect(() => {
console.log(State) // this prints the updated state value
if(state === something){
....
}
}, [state, /* add other dependencies here */]);
useEffect with dependency array acts as an equivalent to componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate. It's the componentDidUpdate lifecycle being used above to "react" to the state update and trigger a side-effect.
This matter has nothing to do with React, your approach would have caused the setCallback() function to be executed first.
I edit your code and demo result :
const onClickCallback = () => {
// Here will run setCallback function before setState function.
setState('...', setCallback())
}
const setCallback = () => {
console.info('run setCallback')
}
const setState = () => {
console.info('run setState')
}
onClickCallback()Answer your question, you can use useEffect to achieve your goals.
Simple example:
const {useState, useEffect} = React;
const DemoComponent = (props) => {
const [state, setState] = useState('initialState')
useEffect(() => {
if (state === 'something') {
console.info('state:' + state)
}
}, [state])
const onClickCallback = () => {
setState('something')
}
return (
<div>
<button onClick={onClickCallback}>Click</button>
</div>
);
}
ReactDOM.render(
<DemoComponent />,
document.getElementById("root")
);<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/17.0.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/17.0.1/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="root"></div>