I am currently working on a blog project where I have to enable a "liking" feature on my blog website. I have enabled the liking feature, however, whenever I test the liking feature with my MongoDB, the response I get is always a like that is one less than the intended value. For example, if I give a blog a like, that already has 4 likes, I get back a document only showing the 4 likes and not the updated document with the new 5 likes.
Here is my frontend code that deals with the "liking" feature:
import axios from "axios"
import { useEffect, useState } from "react"
import blogService from '../services/blogs'
const baseUrl = '/api/blogs'
const Blog = ({blog}) => {
const [checker, setChecker] = useState(false)
const [blogLikes, setBlogLikes] = useState(0)
const [updatedBlog, setUpdatedBlog] = useState({})
const buttonText = checker ? 'hide' : 'view'
useEffect(() => {
setUpdatedBlog({
user: blog.user?.id,
likes: blogLikes,
author: blog.author,
title: blog.title,
url: blog.url
})
}, [blogLikes])
const blogStyle = {
paddingTop: 10,
paddingLeft: 2,
border: 'solid',
borderWidth: 1,
marginBottom: 5
}
const handleLike = async (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
setBlogLikes(blogLikes 1)
const response = await blogService.update(blog?.id, updatedBlog)
console.log(response)
}
return (
<>
{buttonText === "view" ?
<div style={blogStyle}>
{blog.title} {blog.author} <button onClick={() => setChecker(!checker)}>{buttonText}</button>
</div>
: <div style={blogStyle}>
{blog.title} {blog.author} <button onClick={() => setChecker(!checker)}>{buttonText}</button>
<p>{blog.url}</p>
likes {blogLikes} <button onClick={handleLike}>like</button>
<p>{blog.user?.username}</p>
</div>}
</>
)
}
export default Blog
Here is my backend code that deals with the put request of the "new" like:
blogsRouter.put('/:id', async (request, response) => {
const body = request.body
const user = request.user
console.log(body)
const blog = {
user: body.user.id,
title: body.title,
author: body.author,
url: body.url,
likes: body.likes
}
const updatedBlog = await Blog.findByIdAndUpdate(ObjectId(request.params.id), blog, { new: true })
response.json(updatedBlog)
})
Here is the specific axios handler for put request in another file within frontend directory:
const update = async (id, newObject) => {
const request = await axios.put(`${ baseUrl }/${id}`, newObject)
return request
}
CodePudding user response:
State updates are asynchronous in react, because of that when your API call happens:
const handleLike = async (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
setBlogLikes(blogLikes 1)
const response = await blogService.update(blog?.id, updatedBlog)
console.log(response)
}
The updatedBlog
object still contains old data, not the updated one.
So try the following, change your handleLike
function to this:
const handleLike = () => {
setBlogLikes(blogLikes 1)
}
And add your API call in the useEffect
:
useEffect(() => {
setUpdatedBlog({
user: blog.user?.id,
likes: blogLikes,
author: blog.author,
title: blog.title,
url: blog.url
});
blogService.update(blog?.id, {
user: blog.user?.id,
likes: blogLikes,
author: blog.author,
title: blog.title,
url: blog.url
}).then((response) => console.log(response));
}, [blogLikes]);