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I just started learning React and JavaScript.

While going through the tutorial, I got to this example code of a component, which creates a toggle button.

This is part of the code:



class Toggle extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {isToggleOn: true};
this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
}

handleClick() {
this.setState(prevState => ({ // prevState?
isToggleOn: !prevState.isToggleOn
}));
}


2 things that are bugging me here:




  1. Where did the prevState argument come from?

    I don't see anything like var prevState = this.state; before calling it, and still, it works.

  2. The syntax of the arrow function: why the parentheses after the arrow?

    Why doesn't the usual arg => { statement; } syntax work here?



Sorry for the newbie questions...


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 Answers
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  1. prevState is provided by React along with props, both of which are optional.




    • Update 04/13/19: React has changed the setState function documentation by renaming prevState to updater. The callback function still takes two arguments; the state and props at the time the change is being applied.


  2. The parenthesis allow multiple lines where if you didn't use the parenthesis you'd be forced to used a return. You could use a single line but you don't need the curly braces.




    • Update: I forgot to mention a specific case where it is required to have parenthesis. If you're returning an object without a return statement you must wrap it in parenthesis. Thank you @joedotnot for catching that. So () => {foo: true} will throw an error because it looks like a function and foo: true is an invalid line. To fix this it must look like () => ({ foo: true })



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