React: trigger onChange if input value is changing by state?

Question

Edit: I don\'t want to call handleChange only if the button has been clicked. It has nothing to do with handleClick. I gave an example in the @shubhakhatri

Answer 1

You need to trigger the onChange event manually. On text inputs onChange listens for input events.

So in you handleClick function you need to trigger event like

handleClick () {
    this.setState({value: 'another random text'})
    var event = new Event('input', { bubbles: true });
    this.myinput.dispatchEvent(event);
  }

Complete code

class App extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
    value: 'random text'
    }
  }
  handleChange (e) {
    console.log('handle change called')
  }
  handleClick () {
    this.setState({value: 'another random text'})
    var event = new Event('input', { bubbles: true });
    this.myinput.dispatchEvent(event);
  }
  render () {
    return (
      

         {this.handleChange(e)}} ref={(input)=> this.myinput = input}/>
        Change Input
      
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(,  document.getElementById('app'))

Codepen

Edit: As Suggested by @Samuel in the comments, a simpler way would be to call handleChange from handleClick if you don't need to the event object in handleChange like

handleClick () {
    this.setState({value: 'another random text'})
    this.handleChange();
  }

I hope this is what you need and it helps you.