React Serial State

React serial state that fixes the problem with async set state.
Uses the useReducer hooks to be sure the state that updates is correct with earlier setStates.

Install

yarn add @ewb/react-serial-state
npm install @ewb/react-serial-state

How to use

function ReactComponent() {
    const [state, setState, setKey] = useSerialState({
        text: 'string',
        number: 1,
        obj: {
            text2: 'string2',
            number2: 2
        }
    });

    useEffetct(() => {
        setState( { text: 'string2' }) // { text: 'string2', number: 1, obj... }
        setKey('obj', { text2: 'string3' }) { text: 'string2', number: 1, obj: { text2: 'string3', number2: 2 }}
    }, []);

    return state;
}

Problem that was fixed.

function AsyncComponent() {
    const [state, setState] = useState({
        text: 'string',
        number: 1,
        data: { ... } | null
    });

    async fetchData(num: number) {
        setState( { ...state, num, text: 'string2' }) // { text: 'string2', number: 1, obj... }

        const data = async fetch(...);

        // The next line is wrong when the old state has not been updated with the "num" or string.
        // So spreading this state will overwrite the setState before the async call.
        setState( { ...state, data }) // { text: 'string', number: 1, data: {...} }
    }

    useEffetct(() => {
        fetchData(2)
    }, []);

    return state;
}