Here's a 2020, Reactjs Hook example that I thought could help others. I am using it to add new rows to a Reactjs table. Let me know if I could improve on something.
Adding a new element to a functional state component:
Define the state data:
const [data, setData] = useState([
{ id: 1, name: 'John', age: 16 },
{ id: 2, name: 'Jane', age: 22 },
{ id: 3, name: 'Josh', age: 21 }
]);
Have a button trigger a function to add a new element
<Button
// pass the current state data to the handleAdd function so we can append to it.
onClick={() => handleAdd(data)}>
Add a row
</Button>
function handleAdd(currentData) {
// return last data array element
let lastDataObject = currentTableData[currentTableData.length - 1]
// assign last elements ID to a variable.
let lastID = Object.values(lastDataObject)[0]
// build a new element with a new ID based off the last element in the array
let newDataElement = {
id: lastID + 1,
name: 'Jill',
age: 55,
}
// build a new state object
const newStateData = [...currentData, newDataElement ]
// update the state
setData(newStateData);
// print newly updated state
for (const element of newStateData) {
console.log('New Data: ' + Object.values(element).join(', '))
}
}