to call onChange event after pressing Enter key

You can use onKeyPress directly on input field. onChange function changes state value on every input field change and after Enter is pressed it will call a function search().

<input
    type="text"
    placeholder="Search..."
    onChange={event => {this.setState({query: event.target.value})}}
    onKeyPress={event => {
                if (event.key === 'Enter') {
                  this.search()
                }
              }}
/>

According to React Doc, you could listen to keyboard events, like onKeyPress or onKeyUp, not onChange.

var Input = React.createClass({
  render: function () {
    return <input type="text" onKeyDown={this._handleKeyDown} />;
  },
  _handleKeyDown: function(e) {
    if (e.key === 'Enter') {
      console.log('do validate');
    }
  }
});

Update: Use React.Component

Here is the code using React.Component which does the same thing

class Input extends React.Component {
  _handleKeyDown = (e) => {
    if (e.key === 'Enter') {
      console.log('do validate');
    }
  }

  render() {
    return <input type="text" onKeyDown={this._handleKeyDown} />
  }
}

Here is the jsfiddle.

Update 2: Use a functional component

const Input = () => {
  const handleKeyDown = (event) => {
    if (event.key === 'Enter') {
      console.log('do validate')
    }
  }

  return <input type="text" onKeyDown={handleKeyDown} />
}