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JavaScript React Components (2018) Managing State and Data Flow Managing State Review

cathymacars
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cathymacars
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What's wrong with my answer?

The quiz asks me to "Complete the code to bring in all student objects in the previous state into the students array in setState().".

My answer was ...this.state.students.

Thanks

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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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It should be ...prevState.students

We're passing in a callback to setState here as opposed to an object. This is the strategy that let's use make sure that we avoid any bugs with state being set asynchronously. The parameter here was named prevState, so we should use that as opposed to directly accessing the state object.

Ashton Little
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this is wrong it should be ...prevState

Alvaro Roa
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Wrong! ...prevState