Is it a good practice to modify a component's state and then call “setState(this.state)”?

Question

I\'m using ReactJS.

I have a statefull component (stopwatch container) and multiple child components which are stateless (stopwatches).

In the outer component,

Answer 1

Instead of calling this.setState(this.state) you can just call this.forceUpdate().

Just remember that this is not recommended way of updating components state. If you are unsure about your modifications take a look on Immutability Helpers.