How to send http request on button click with react hooks? Or, for that matter, how to do any side effect on button click?
What i see so far is to have something "indirect" like:
export default = () => {
const [sendRequest, setSendRequest] = useState(false);
useEffect(() => {
if(sendRequest){
//send the request
setSendRequest(false);
}
},
[sendRequest]);
return (
<input type="button" disabled={sendRequest} onClick={() => setSendRequest(true)}
);
}
Is that the proper way or is there some other pattern?
Best Answer
this is what it would boil down to when you want to send a request on click and disabling the button while it is sending
update:
@tkd_aj pointed out that this might give a warning: "Can't perform a React state update on an unmounted component. This is a no-op, but it indicates a memory leak in your application. To fix, cancel all subscriptions and asynchronous tasks in a useEffect cleanup function."
Effectively, what happens is that the request is still processing, while in the meantime your component unmounts. It then tries to
setIsSending
(a setState) on an unmounted component.