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React setState + Where does 'prevState' come from?

I just started learning React and JavaScript.
While going through the tutorial, I got to this example code of a component, which creates a toggle button.
This is part of the code:

class Toggle extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {isToggleOn: true};
        this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
    }

    handleClick() {
        this.setState(prevState => ({    // prevState?
            isToggleOn: !prevState.isToggleOn
        }));
    }

2 things that are bugging me here:

  1. Where did the prevState argument come from?
    I don't see anything like var prevState = this.state; before calling it, and still, it works.
  2. The syntax of the arrow function: why the parentheses after the arrow?
    Why doesn't the usual arg => { statement; } syntax work here?

Sorry for the newbie questions...

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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  1. prevState is provided by React along with props, both of which are optional.

    • Update 04/13/19: React has changed the setState function documentation by renaming prevState to updater. The callback function still takes two arguments; the state and props at the time the change is being applied.
  2. The parenthesis allow multiple lines where if you didn't use the parenthesis you'd be forced to used a return. You could use a single line but you don't need the curly braces.

    • Update: I forgot to mention a specific case where it is required to have parenthesis. If you're returning an object without a return statement you must wrap it in parenthesis. Thank you @joedotnot for catching that. So () => {foo: true} will throw an error because it looks like a function and foo: true is an invalid line. To fix this it must look like () => ({ foo: true })
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Im use this. (Example)

const [modal, setModal] = useState(false);
const [dataAction, setDataAction] = useState({name: '', description: ''});

const _handleChangeName = (data) => {
    if(data.name)
        setDataAction( prevState  => ({ ...prevState,   name : data.name }));
    if(data.description)
        setDataAction( prevState  => ({ ...prevState,   description : data.description }));
  };
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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