I have a snack bar component
, which displays a toast message for a few seconds and then disappears. I have an App component
which contains a button
, and on click of that button
, I want to control the snack bar component
. On the first click, the snack bar
appears fine and disappears after the time specified is over. But when I click it again, the snack bar
doesn't appear. I am initializing the show state
to true every time, still, the snack bar
isn't appearing. Please tell me where I am going wrong and how to rectify this. Below are the files. I am using a custom hook to control the behavior of snack bar's appearance.
App.js
import React, { useState } from "react";
import { Snackbar } from "./Snackbar";
function App() {
const [display, setDisplay] = useState(false);
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => setDisplay(true)}>Click me</button>
{display && <Snackbar message="hello" />}
</div>
);
}
export default App;
Snackbar.js
import React from "react";
import { useSnackbar } from "./useSnackbar";
const Snackbar = ({ message }) => {
const { showSnackbar } = useSnackbar();
return (
showSnackbar && (
<div>
<p>{message}</p>
</div>
)
);
};
export { Snackbar };
useSnackbar.js
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
const useSnackbar = () => {
const [showSnackbar, setSnackbar] = useState(true);
const [snackbarMessage, setSnackbarMessage] = useState('');
useEffect(() => {
const timer = setTimeout(() => {
setSnackbar(false);
setSnackbarMessage('');
}, 3000);
return () => {
clearTimeout(timer);
};
}, [showSnackbar]);
return {
showSnackbar,
setSnackbar,
snackbarMessage,
setSnackbarMessage
};
};
export { useSnackbar };
You don't reset your display
state in App.js
Pass a reset state callback function to Snackbar
to pass to the useSnackbar
hook.
const useSnackbar = (onClose) => { // <-- callback function
const [showSnackbar, setSnackbar] = useState(true);
const [snackbarMessage, setSnackbarMessage] = useState('');
useEffect(() => {
const timer = setTimeout(() => {
setSnackbar(false);
setSnackbarMessage('');
onClose && onClose(); // <-- invoke when timer expired
}, 3000);
return () => {
clearTimeout(timer);
onClose && onClose(); // <-- edge case if component unmounts before expire
};
}, [onClose, showSnackbar]);
return {
showSnackbar,
setSnackbar,
snackbarMessage,
setSnackbarMessage
};
};
const Snackbar = ({ message, onClose }) => {
const { showSnackbar } = useSnackbar(onClose); // <-- pass callback to hook
return (
showSnackbar && (
<div>
<p>{message}</p>
</div>
)
);
};
export default function App() {
const [display, setDisplay] = useState(false);
return (
<div className="App">
<h1>Hello CodeSandbox</h1>
<h2>Start editing to see some magic happen!</h2>
<div>
<button onClick={() => setDisplay(true)}>Click me</button>
{display && <Snackbar message="hello" onClose={() => setDisplay(false)} />} // <-- pass reset callback
</div>
</div>
);
}