React question(create a controlled input)

[lasjorg]

It has to do with how setState (the callback) and events in React works.

Right AND Wrong?

Remove the updater function and just return an object. You are not doing anything with the current state anyway, so you do not need the updater function. this.setState({input: event.target.value}); If you did want to use event.target.value in the updater function I believe you would have to capture it in the handler and pass that to the updater. handleChange(event) { const targetValue = event.target.value; this.setState((state, props) => { return { input: targetValue } }) }; It has…