React Hooks useState() with Object

Question

What is the correct way of updating state, is a nested object, in React with Hooks?

export Example = () => {
  const [exampleState, setExampleState] = use         


        

Answer 1

Initially I used object in useState, but then I moved to useReducer hook for complex cases. I felt a performance improvement when I refactored the code.

useReducer is usually preferable to useState when you have complex state logic that involves multiple sub-values or when the next state depends on the previous one.

useReducer React docs

I already implemented such hook for my own use:

/**
 * Same as useObjectState but uses useReducer instead of useState
 *  (better performance for complex cases)
 * @param {*} PropsWithDefaultValues object with all needed props 
 * and their initial value
 * @returns [state, setProp] state - the state object, setProp - dispatch 
 * changes one (given prop name & prop value) or multiple props (given an 
 * object { prop: value, ...}) in object state
 */
export function useObjectReducer(PropsWithDefaultValues) {
  const [state, dispatch] = useReducer(reducer, PropsWithDefaultValues);

  //newFieldsVal={[field_name]: [field_value], ...}
  function reducer(state, newFieldsVal) {
    return { ...state, ...newFieldsVal };
  }

  return [
    state,
    (newFieldsVal, newVal) => {
      if (typeof newVal !== "undefined") {
        const tmp = {};
        tmp[newFieldsVal] = newVal;
        dispatch(tmp);
      } else {
        dispatch(newFieldsVal);
      }
    },
  ];
}

more related hooks.

Answer 2

I'm late to the party.. :)

@aseferov answer works very well when the intention is to re-enter the entire object structure. However, if the target/goal is to update a specific field value in an Object, I believe the approach below is better.

situation:

const [infoData, setInfoData] = useState({
    major: {
      name: "John Doe",
      age: "24",
      sex: "M",
    },

    minor:{
      id: 4,
      collegeRegion: "south",

    }

  });

Updating a specific record will require making a recall to the previous State prevState

Here:

setInfoData((prevState) => ({
      ...prevState,
      major: {
        ...prevState.major,
        name: "Tan Long",
      }
    }));

perhaps

setInfoData((prevState) => ({
      ...prevState,
      major: {
        ...prevState.major,
        name: "Tan Long",
      },
      minor: {
        ...prevState.minor,
        collegeRegion: "northEast"

    }));

I hope this helps anyone trying to solve a similar problem.

Answer 3

You can pass new value like this

  setExampleState({...exampleState,  masterField2: {
        fieldOne: "c",
        fieldTwo: {
           fieldTwoOne: "d",
           fieldTwoTwo: "e"
           }
        },
   }})