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+---
+title: useMergeState
+tags: hooks,state,beginner
+firstSeen: 2021-09-23T05:00:00-04:00
+---
+
+Creates a stateful value, and a function to update it by merging the new state provided.
+
+- Use the `useState()` hook to create a state variable, initializing it to `initialState`.
+- Create a function that will update the state variable by merging the new state provided with the existing one. If the new state is a function, call it with the previous state as the argument and use the result.
+- Omit the argument, to initialize the state variable with an empty object (`{}`).
+
+```jsx
+const useMergeState = (initialState = {}) => {
+  const [value, setValue] = React.useState(initialState);
+
+  const mergeState = newState => {
+    if (typeof newState === 'function') newState = newState(value);
+    setValue({ ...value, ...newState });
+  };
+
+  return [value, mergeState];
+};
+```
+
+```jsx
+const MyApp = () => {
+  const [data, setData] = useMergeState({ name: 'John', age: 20 });
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <input
+        value={data.name}
+        onChange={e => setData({ name: e.target.value })}
+      />
+      <button onClick={() => setData(({ age }) => ({ age: age - 1 }))}>
+        -
+      </button>
+      {data.age}
+      <button onClick={() => setData(({ age }) => ({ age: age + 1 }))}>
+        +
+      </button>
+    </>
+  );
+};
+
+ReactDOM.render(<MyApp />, document.getElementById('root'));
+```