reactjs does not store the last character in useState when typing

etranz
November 18, 2023
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I am building a frontend application with react

i want to store the value of phone on useState but i am not getting the expected result

The last character typed does not show

I have used callback to display the same result

  import React, { useState } from 'react'
    export const terr = () => {
        const [selectedData, setSelectedData] = useState({})
    
        const handleChange = (value) => {
            console.log(`selected ${value}`);
            setSelectedData(selectedData => ({
                ...selectedData,
                [e.target.name]: e.target.value
            }));
            console.log(`selected data `, selectedData);
        };
        return (
            <div>
                <input name="phone" value={selectedData} onChange={handleChange} />
            </div>
        )
    }

Tags: react-hooks reactjs

Answers

- Marcel
- November 17, 2023 at 10:18 pm
- 0 votes
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I think this is what you wanted to achieve
```
export const Server = () => {
  const [selectedData, setSelectedData] = useState({});

  const handleChange = (e) => {
    setSelectedData({ ...selectedData, [e.target.name]: e.target.value });
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <input name="phone" onChange={(e) => handleChange(e)} />
    </div>
  );
};
```
Note that the console.log inside the handleChange function always shows an "old" selectedData value because setSelectedData is async, try logging it with useEffect or directly inside the JSX to confirm
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What seems to be wrong with your code is two things:

The value property on the input is not needed
The handleChange function should take a parameter of event (see HTMLElement: change event)

import { FC, useEffect, useState } from 'react';

// https://stackoverflow.com/a/77504979/128346
export const App: FC = () => {
  const [selectedData, setSelectedData] = useState<{
    phone?: string;
    words?: string;
  }>({});

  const handleChange = (event) => {
    const { name, value } = event.target;
    setSelectedData({
      ...selectedData,
      [name]: value,
    });
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(`selected data `, selectedData);
  }, [selectedData]);

  return (
    <div>
      <input
        name="phone"
        value={selectedData.phone ?? ''}
        onChange={handleChange}
      />
      <input
        name="words"
        value={selectedData.words ?? ''}
        onChange={handleChange}
      />
    </div>
  );
};

sandboxed demo of the above in action
https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-yhksn3?file=src%2FApp.tsx

video demo of the above in action
https://www.loom.com/share/4751379be5c04f10adcb61e241551b90