use-last

A React hook to conditionally return the last value that has met a certain criteria.

This is useful when you have a React component that has a state or prop that changes over time, but you want to conditionally skip some values.

Example

Implementation:

import useLast from 'use-last';

function LastValue({value}) {
  const lastDefinedValue = useLast(value);
  return <p>{lastDefinedValue}</p>;
}

Usage:

// Renders "2"
<LastValue value={2} />

// Still renders "2"
<LastValue value={undefined} />

// Renders "4"
<LastValue value={4} />

Configuration

By default, value is checked for being !== undefined. You can provide a second argument to customize this condition:

import useLast from 'use-last';

function LastEvenValue({value}) {
  const lastEvenValue = useLast(value, value % 2 === 0);
  return <p>{lastEvenValue}</p>;
}