30-seconds-of-code/snippets/useDefault.md

title, tags, expertise, firstSeen

title	tags	expertise	firstSeen
React useDefault hook	hooks,state	intermediate	2021-10-23T05:00:00-04:00

Creates a stateful value with a default fallback if it's null or undefined, and a function to update it.

• Use the useState() hook to create stateful value.
• Check if the value is either null or undefined.
• Return the defaultState if it is, otherwise return the actual value state, alongside the setValue function.

const useDefault = (defaultState, initialState) => {
  const [value, setValue] = React.useState(initialState);
  const isValueEmpty = value === undefined || value === null;
  return [isValueEmpty ? defaultState : value, setValue];
};

const UserCard = () => {
  const [user, setUser] = useDefault({ name: 'Adam' }, { name: 'John' });

  return (
    <>
      <div>User: {user.name}</div>
      <input onChange={e => setUser({ name: e.target.value })} />
      <button onClick={() => setUser(null)}>Clear</button>
    </>
  );
};

ReactDOM.render(<UserCard />, document.getElementById('root'));