use-state-history

Motivation

If you use React Hooks, you may want an easy solution to handle not just the current state with useState, but also the history of the changes to that state, for instance with undo and redo functionality.

useStateHistory is a simple custom hook that gives you exactly that.

Getting Started

To get it started, add use-state-history to your project:

npm install --save use-state-history

or

yarn add use-state-history

Please note that use-state-history requires react@^16.7.0-alpha.0 as a peer dependency.

Examples

Basic Usage

import React from 'react';
import useStateHistory from 'use-state-history'

function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount, { undo, redo }] = useStateHistory(0);

  return <div>
    <h1>Now: {count}</h1>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}> +1 </button>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(count - 1)}> -1 </button>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(0)}> => 0 </button>

    <button onClick={undo} disabled={!undo}> undo </button>
    <button onClick={redo} disabled={!redo}> redo </button>
  </div>;
}

To visualize the history

import React from 'react';
import useStateHistory from 'use-state-history'

function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount, { history, index, undo, redo }] = useStateHistory(0);

  return <div>
    <h1>Now: {count}</h1>
    <h2>History: {history.map((historyCount, currentIndex) => <span style={ currentIndex === index ? {color: 'red'} : null}>{historyCount}&nbsp;</span>)}</h2>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}> +1 </button>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(count - 1)}> -1 </button>
    <button onClick={() => setCount(0)}> => 0 </button>

    <button onClick={undo} disabled={!undo}> undo </button>
    <button onClick={redo} disabled={!redo}> redo </button>
  </div>;
}

Implementation

useStateHistory is as simple as this:

import { useState } from 'react';

function useStateHistory(initialValue) {
  const [history, setHistory] = useState([initialValue])
  const [index, setIndex] = useState(0)

  const state = history[index]
  const setState = (newState) => {
    setHistory(history => history.slice(0, index + 1).concat(newState))
    setIndex(index => index + 1)
  }
  let undo, redo
  if (index > 0)
    undo = () => setIndex(index => index - 1)
  if (index < history.length - 1)
    redo = () => setIndex(index => index + 1)

  return [state, setState, { history, index, setHistory, setIndex, undo, redo }];
}

License

MIT