Executing async code on update of state with react-hooks

Created a custom useState hook which works similar to the normal useState hook except that the state updater function for this custom hook takes a callback that will be executed after the state is updated and component rerendered.

Typescript Solution

import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';

type OnUpdateCallback<T> = (s: T) => void;
type SetStateUpdaterCallback<T> = (s: T) => T;
type SetStateAction<T> = (newState: T | SetStateUpdaterCallback<T>, callback?: OnUpdateCallback<T>) => void;

export function useCustomState<T>(init: T): [T, SetStateAction<T>];
export function useCustomState<T = undefined>(init?: T): [T | undefined, SetStateAction<T | undefined>];
export function useCustomState<T>(init: T): [T, SetStateAction<T>] {
    const [state, setState] = useState<T>(init);
    const cbRef = useRef<OnUpdateCallback<T>>();

    const setCustomState: SetStateAction<T> = (newState, callback?): void => {
        cbRef.current = callback;
        setState(newState);
    };

    useEffect(() => {
        if (cbRef.current) {
            cbRef.current(state);
        }
        cbRef.current = undefined;
    }, [state]);

    return [state, setCustomState];
}

Javascript solution

import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';

export function useCustomState(init) {
    const [state, setState] = useState(init);
    const cbRef = useRef();

    const setCustomState = (newState, callback) => {
        cbRef.current = callback;
        setState(newState);
    };

    useEffect(() => {
        if (cbRef.current) {
            cbRef.current(state);
        }
        cbRef.current = undefined;
    }, [state]);

    return [state, setCustomState];
}

Usage

const [state, setState] = useCustomState(myInitialValue);
...
setState(myNewValueOrStateUpdaterCallback, () => {
   // Function called after state update and component rerender
})

Wait until your component re-render.

const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

useEffect(() => {
    if (loading) {
        doSomething();
    }
}, [loading]);

setLoading(true);

You can improve clarity with something like:

function doSomething() {
  // your side effects
  // return () => {  }
}

function useEffectIf(condition, fn) {
  useEffect(() => condition && fn(), [condition])
}

function App() {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  useEffectIf(loading, doSomething)

  return (
    <>
      <div>{loading}</div>
      <button onClick={() => setLoading(true)}>Click Me</button>
    </>
  );
}

useState setter doesn't provide a callback after state update is done like setState does in React class components. In order to replicate the same behaviour, you can make use of the a similar pattern like componentDidUpdate lifecycle method in React class components with useEffect using Hooks

useEffect hooks takes the second parameter as an array of values which React needs to monitor for change after the render cycle is complete.

const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

...

useEffect(() => {
    doSomething(); // This is be executed when `loading` state changes
}, [loading])
setLoading(true);

EDIT

Unlike setState, the updater for useState hook doesn't have a callback, but you can always use a useEffect to replicate the above behaviour. However you need to determine the loading change

The functional approach to your code would look like

function usePrevious(value) {
  const ref = useRef();
  useEffect(() => {
    ref.current = value;
  });
  return ref.current;
}

---

const prevLoading = usePrevious(isLoading);

useEffect(() => {
   if (!prevLoading && isLoading) {
       getOrders({
          page: page + 1,
          query: localQuery,
          held: localHoldMode,
          statuses: filterMap[filterBy],
      })
      .then((o) => {
        const { orders: fetchedOrders } = o.data;
        const allOrders = orders.concat(fetchedOrders);

        setOrders(allOrders);
        setPage(page + 1);
        setPagesSeen([...pagesSeen, page + 1]);
        setPrefetchedOrders(null);
        setIsLoading(false);
      })
      .catch(e => console.error(e.message));
   }
}, [isLoading, preFetchedOrders, orders, page, pagesSeen]);

const getNextPage = () => {
    // This will scroll back to the top, and also trigger the prefetch for the next page on the way up.
    goToTop();

    if (pagesSeen.includes(page + 1)) {
      return setPage(page + 1);
    }

    if (prefetchedOrders) {
      const allOrders = orders.concat(prefetchedOrders);
      setOrders(allOrders);
      setPage(page + 1);
      setPagesSeen([...pagesSeen, page + 1]);
      setPrefetchedOrders(null);
      return;
    }

    setIsLoading(true);
  };