[javascript] React - clearing an input value after form submit

I'm presented with a rather silly problem. I am in the process of creating my first React application and I have encountered a little issue, where I am not able to clear my input value, after I submit a form. A tried googling this problem, found some similar threads here, but I was not able to resolve this. I do NOT want to change the state of my component/application, just to change the value of the input to an empty string. I tried clearing the value of the input in my onHandleSubmit() function, but I got an error:

"Cannot set property 'value' of undefined".

My SearchBar Component:

import React, { Component } from "react";

class SearchBar extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      city: ""
    };

    this.onHandleChange = this.onHandleChange.bind(this);
    this.onHandleSubmit = this.onHandleSubmit.bind(this);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <form>
        <input
          id="mainInput"
          onChange={this.onHandleChange}
          placeholder="Get current weather..."
          value={this.state.city}
          type="text"
        />
        <button onClick={this.onHandleSubmit} type="submit">
          Search!
        </button>
      </form>
    );
  }

  onHandleChange(e) {
    this.setState({
      city: e.target.value
    });
  }

  onHandleSubmit(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    const city = this.state.city;
    this.props.onSearchTermChange(city);
    this.mainInput.value = "";
  }
}

export default SearchBar;

This is the value that i want to clear and create it in state 1st STEP

state={
TemplateCode:"",
}

craete submitHandler function for Button or what you want 3rd STEP

submitHandler=()=>{
this.clear();//this is function i made
}

This is clear function Final STEP

clear = () =>{
  this.setState({
    TemplateCode: ""//simply you can clear Templatecode
  });
}

when click button Templatecode is clear 2nd STEP

<div class="col-md-12" align="right">
  <button id="" type="submit" class="btn btnprimary" onClick{this.submitHandler}> Save 
  </button>
</div>

The answers above are incorrect, they will all run weather or not the submission is successful... You need to write an error component that will receive any errors then check if there are errors in state, if there are not then clear the form....

use .then()

example:

 const onSubmit =  e => {
e.preventDefault();
const fd = new FormData();
fd.append("ticketType", ticketType);
fd.append("ticketSubject", ticketSubject);
fd.append("ticketDescription", ticketDescription);
fd.append("itHelpType", itHelpType);
fd.append("ticketPriority", ticketPriority);
fd.append("ticketAttachments", ticketAttachments);
newTicketITTicket(fd).then(()=>{
  setTicketData({
    ticketType: "IT",
    ticketSubject: "",
    ticketDescription: "",
    itHelpType: "",
    ticketPriority: ""
  })
})  

};

In your onHandleSubmit function, set your state to {city: ''} again like this :

this.setState({ city: '' });

Since you input field is a controlled element, you cannot directly change the input field value without modifying the state.

Also in

onHandleSubmit(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    const city = this.state.city;
    this.props.onSearchTermChange(city);
    this.mainInput.value = "";
  }

this.mainInput doesn't refer the input since mainInput is an id, you need to specify a ref to the input

<input
      ref={(ref) => this.mainInput= ref}
      onChange={this.onHandleChange}
      placeholder="Get current weather..."
      value={this.state.city}
      type="text"
    />

In you current state the best way is to clear the state to clear the input value

onHandleSubmit(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    const city = this.state.city;
    this.props.onSearchTermChange(city);
    this.setState({city: ""});
  }

However if you still for some reason want to keep the value in state even if the form is submitted, you would rather make the input uncontrolled

<input
      id="mainInput"
      onChange={this.onHandleChange}
      placeholder="Get current weather..."
      type="text"
    />

and update the value in state onChange and onSubmit clear the input using ref

 onHandleChange(e) {
    this.setState({
      city: e.target.value
    });
  }

  onHandleSubmit(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    const city = this.state.city;
    this.props.onSearchTermChange(city);
    this.mainInput.value = "";
  }

Having Said that, I don't see any point in keeping the state unchanged, so the first option should be the way to go.

this.mainInput doesn't actually point to anything. Since you are using a controlled component (i.e. the value of the input is obtained from state) you can set this.state.city to null:

onHandleSubmit(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  const city = this.state.city;
  this.props.onSearchTermChange(city);
  this.setState({ city: '' });
}