How can I force component to re-render with hooks in React?

Question

Considering below hooks example

   import { useState } from \'react\';

   function Example() {
       const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

       return         


        

Answer 1

Generally, you can use any state handling approach you want to trigger an update.

With TypeScript

codesandbox example

useState

const forceUpdate: () => void = React.useState()[1].bind(null, {})  // see NOTE below

useReducer

const forceUpdate = React.useReducer(() => ({}), {})[1] as () => void

as custom hook

Just wrap whatever approach you prefer like this

function useForceUpdate(): () => void {
  return React.useReducer(() => ({}), {})[1] as () => void // <- paste here
}

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How this works?

"To trigger an update" means to tell React engine that some value has changed and that it should rerender your component.

[, setState] from useState() requires a parameter. We get rid of it by binding a fresh object {}.
() => ({}) in useReducer is a dummy reducer that returns a fresh object each time an action is dispatched.
{} (fresh object) is required so that it triggers an update by changing a reference in the state.

PS: useState just wraps useReducer internally. source

NOTE: Using .bind with useState causes a change in function reference between renders. It is possible to wrap it inside useCallback as already explained here, but then it wouldn't be a sexy one-liner™. The Reducer version already keeps reference equality between renders. This is important if you want to pass the forceUpdate function in props.

plain JS

const forceUpdate = React.useState()[1].bind(null, {})  // see NOTE above
const forceUpdate = React.useReducer(() => ({}))[1]