How do I update states onchange in an array of object in React Hooks

Question

I have retrieved datas stored using useState in an array of object, the datas was then outputted into form fields. And now I want to be able to update the fields (state) as

Answer 1

Here is how you do it:

// sample datas structure
/* const datas = [
    {
      id:   1,
      name: 'john',
      gender: 'm'
    }
    {
      id:   2,
      name: 'mary',
      gender: 'f'
    }
] */ // make sure to set the default value in the useState call (I already fixed it)

const [datas, setDatas] = useState([
    {
      id:   1,
      name: 'john',
      gender: 'm'
    }
    {
      id:   2,
      name: 'mary',
      gender: 'f'
    }
]);

const updateFieldChanged = index => e => {

    console.log('index: ' + index);
    console.log('property name: '+ e.target.name);
    let newArr = [...datas]; // copying the old datas array
    newArr[index] = e.target.value; // replace e.target.value with whatever you want to change it to

    setDatas(newArr); // ??
}

return (
    <React.Fragment>
        { datas.map( (data, index) => {
              <li key={data.name}>
                <input type="text" name="name" value={data.name} onChange={updateFieldChanged(index)}  />
              </li>
          })
        }
    </React.Fragment>
)

Answer 2

This is what I do:

const [datas, setDatas] = useState([
  {
    id: 1,
    name: "john",
    gender: "m",
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    name: "mary",
    gender: "f",
  },
]);

const updateFieldChanged = (name, index) => (event) => {
  let newArr = datas.map((item, i) => {
    if (index == i) {
      return { ...item, [name]: event.target.value };
    } else {
      return item;
    }
  });
  setDatas(newArr);
};

return (
  <React.Fragment>
    {datas.map((data, index) => {
      <li key={data.name}>
        <input
          type="text"
          name="name"
          value={data.name}
          onChange={updateFieldChanged("name", index)}
        />
      </li>;
      <li key={data.gender}>
        <input
          type="text"
          name="gender"
          value={data.gender}
          onChange={updateFieldChanged("gender", index)}
        />
      </li>;
    })}
  </React.Fragment>
);

Answer 3

You can do this without mutation by mapping your old array into a new one, swapping what you want to change for an updated item along the way.

setDatas(
    datas.map(item => 
        item.id === index 
        ? {...item, someProp : "changed"} 
        : item 
))