I know that React may perform state updates asynchronously and in batch for performance optimization. Therefore you can never trust the state to be updated after having called setState
. But can you trust React to update the state in the same order as setState
is called for
- the same component?
- different components?
Consider clicking the button in the following examples:
1. Is there ever a possibility that a is false and b is true for:
class Container extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { a: false, b: false };
}
render() {
return <Button onClick={this.handleClick}/>
}
handleClick = () => {
this.setState({ a: true });
this.setState({ b: true });
}
}
2. Is there ever a possibility that a is false and b is true for:
class SuperContainer extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { a: false };
}
render() {
return <Container setParentState={this.setState.bind(this)}/>
}
}
class Container extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { b: false };
}
render() {
return <Button onClick={this.handleClick}/>
}
handleClick = () => {
this.props.setParentState({ a: true });
this.setState({ b: true });
}
}
Keep in mind that these are extreme simplifications of my use case. I realize that I can do this differently, e.g. updating both state params at the same time in example 1, as well as performing the second state update in a callback to the first state update in example 2. However, this is not my question, and I am only interested in if there is a well defined way that React performs these state updates, nothing else.
Any answer backed up by documentation is greatly appreciated.