How call React's setState function from outside of any component, like a utility function?

Question

I have an app where I want to move the read, write operations to a utility file i.e. away from component. I am trying to do it this way.

component.js

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Answer 1

It looks like you need to bind setState before passing it to an external function.

saveData(this.setState.bind(this), data);