I'm having some trouble with the React useState hook. I have a todolist with a checkbox button and I want to update the 'done' property to 'true' that has the same id as the id of the 'clicked' checkbox button. If I console.log my 'toggleDone' function it returns the right id. But I have no idea how I can update the right property.
The current state:
const App = () => {
const [state, setState] = useState({
todos:
[
{
id: 1,
title: 'take out trash',
done: false
},
{
id: 2,
title: 'wife to dinner',
done: false
},
{
id: 3,
title: 'make react app',
done: false
},
]
})
const toggleDone = (id) => {
console.log(id);
}
return (
<div className="App">
<Todos todos={state.todos} toggleDone={toggleDone}/>
</div>
);
}
The updated state I want:
const App = () => {
const [state, setState] = useState({
todos:
[
{
id: 1,
title: 'take out trash',
done: false
},
{
id: 2,
title: 'wife to dinner',
done: false
},
{
id: 3,
title: 'make react app',
done: true // if I checked this checkbox.
},
]
})
You can safely use javascript's array map functionality since that will not modify existing state, which react does not like, and it returns a new array. The process is to loop over the state's array and find the correct id. Update the done
boolean. Then set state with the updated list.
const toggleDone = (id) => {
console.log(id);
// loop over the todos list and find the provided id.
let updatedList = state.todos.map(item =>
{
if (item.id == id){
return {...item, done: !item.done}; //gets everything that was already in item, and updates "done"
}
return item; // else return unmodified item
});
setState({todos: updatedList}); // set state to new object with updated list
}
Edit: updated the code to toggle item.done
instead of setting it to true.