Why is setState in reactjs Async instead of Sync?

Question

I have just found that in react this.setState() function in any component is asynchronous or is called after the completion of the function that it was called i

Answer 1

Good article here https://github.com/vasanthk/react-bits/blob/master/patterns/27.passing-function-to-setState.md

// assuming this.state.count === 0
this.setState({count: this.state.count + 1});
this.setState({count: this.state.count + 1});
this.setState({count: this.state.count + 1});
// this.state.count === 1, not 3

Solution
this.setState((prevState, props) => ({
  count: prevState.count + props.increment
}));

or pass callback this.setState ({.....},callback)

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/setstate-gate-abc10a9b2d82 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/functional-setstate-is-the-future-of-react-374f30401b6b