Can't set state in react

Question

So, I'm simply trying to set state in my react app. Simply get data from Axios, and then set state. But no matter what I do, the state will not set. I've tried putting it in a callback since it's async and putting it my component did mount and component did update alas nothing. any pointers?

class App extends Component {
  componentDidUpdate() {}

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      Catogories: [
        "Business",
        "Entertainment",
        "General",
        "Health",
        "Science",
        "Sports",
        "Technology"
      ],
      CatPics: [],
      TopStories: [],
      Selection: [],
      Sources: [],
      selected: false
    };
  }
  GeneratePic = () => {
    this.state.Catogories.forEach(Catogory => {
      axios
        .get(
          "https://api.pexels.com/v1/search?query=" +
            Catogory +
            "&per_page=15&page=1",
          {
            Authorization:
              "563492ad6f91700001000001d33b5d31a9a145b78ee67e35c8e6c321"
          }
        )
        .then(res => {
          var object = { Catogory: res.photos[0].src.large2x };
          this.state.CatPics.push(object);
        });
    });
  };
  dump = x => {
    this.setState({ TopStories: x }, console.log(this.state.TopStories));
  };
  TopStories = () => {
    console.log("working");
    axios
      .get(
        "https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?country=us&apiKey=91bec895cf8d45eaa46124fb19f6ad81"
      )
      .then(res => {
        console.log(res);
        const data = res.data.articles;
        console.log(data);
        this.dump(data);
      });
  };

Answer 1

This should work.

Dont Mutate the state.

 GeneratePic = () => {
        this.state.Catogories.forEach(async Catogory => {
            await axios
                .get(
                    "https://api.pexels.com/v1/search?query=" +
                    Catogory +
                    "&per_page=15&page=1", {
                        Authorization: "563492ad6f91700001000001d33b5d31a9a145b78ee67e35c8e6c321"
                    }
                )
                .then(res => {
                    var object = { Catogory: res.data.photos[0].src.large2x };
                    const cPics = [...this.state.CatPics];
                    cPics.push(object);
                    this.setState({
                        CatPics: cPics
                    })
                });
        });
    };