Jeaf Gilbert
Jeaf Gilbert

Reputation: 11981

React Native: Hook Child State to Parent's State using Context

I'm trying to rerender {userNumbers} in ChildScreen. I managed to add userNumbers state in Home, but it doesn't rerender the text.

UserContext.js

import { createContext } from 'react';

export const UserContext = createContext(null);

Home.js

import React from 'react';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';
import { UserContext } from "../contexts/UserContext";
import ChildScreen from "ChildScreen";

const Stack = createStackNavigator();

export default function Home() {
  const [state, dispatch] = React.useReducer((prevState, action) => {
    switch (action.type) {
      case 'ADD_USER':
        return {
          ...prevState,
          users: state.users + action.newUsers
        };
    }
  }, {
    users: 0
  });

  const userContext = React.useMemo(
    () => ({
      addUsers: async data => {
        dispatch({
          type: 'ADD_USER',
          newUsers: data.newUsers
        });
      },
      userNumbers: state.users
    }),
    []
  );

  return (
    <UserContext.Provider value={userContext}>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name="ChildScreen" component={ChildScreen} />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </UserContext>
  )
}

ChildScreen.js

import React from 'react';
import { View, Text } from 'react-native';
import { TouchableWithoutFeedback } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import { UserContext } from "../contexts/UserContext";

export default function ChildScreen() {
  const { addUsers, userNumbers } = React.useContext(UserContext);

  render (
    <View><Text>{userNumbers}</Text></View>
    <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => { addUsers({newUsers: 999)}) }>
      <Text>Add 999 Users</Text>
    </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
  )
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 250

Answers (2)

Dennis Vash
Dennis Vash

Reputation: 53874

You need to re-evaluate useContext on state.users change:

const userContext = React.useMemo(
  () => ({
    //...
    userNumbers: state.users,
  }),
  [state.users]
);

Upvotes: 1

Shubham Khatri
Shubham Khatri

Reputation: 281636

You need to re-create the userContext value when state.users change by adding state.users as a dependency to useMemo otherwise you context value will keep holding the same reference of value and will note trigger change for any listeners

const userContext = React.useMemo(
    () => ({
      addUsers: data => {
        dispatch({
          type: 'ADD_USER',
          newUsers: data.newUsers
        });
      },
      userNumbers: state.users
    }),
    [state.users] // Add a dependency here so that user update changes reference
  );

Also you should define your reducer to be pure, i.e it shouldn't use state from closure

const [state, dispatch] = React.useReducer((prevState, action) => {
    switch (action.type) {
      case 'ADD_USER':
        return {
          ...prevState,
          users: prevState.users + action.newUsers // use prevState here
        };
    }
  }, {
    users: 0
  });

P.S. You need not define addUsers function to be async. dispatch happens asynchronously but requires a re-render to take effect and you need not wait on it

Upvotes: 1

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