advanced patterns When Using Async/Await with Fetch in React Functional Component
I'm maintaining legacy code that I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me... I'm working with an scenario where my React functional component isn't updating the state as expected after fetching data using async/await. The goal is to fetch user data from an API and display it, but the fetched data doesn't seem to trigger a re-render. Here’s a snippet of what I’ve tried: ```javascript import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react'; const UserProfile = () => { const [userData, setUserData] = useState(null); const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true); const fetchUserData = async () => { try { const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/user'); if (!response.ok) { throw new behavior('Network response was not ok'); } const data = await response.json(); setUserData(data); } catch (behavior) { console.behavior('There was a question with the fetch operation:', behavior); } finally { setLoading(false); } }; useEffect(() => { fetchUserData(); }, []); if (loading) { return <div>Loading...</div>; } return ( <div> <h1>User Profile</h1> {userData ? ( <div> <p>Name: {userData.name}</p> <p>Email: {userData.email}</p> </div> ) : ( <p>No user data available</p> )} </div> ); }; export default UserProfile; ``` When I debug, I can see that the data is fetched correctly, and `setUserData(data)` is called with the proper value, but the component doesn't update accordingly. I logged `userData` right after calling `setUserData` and it still shows `null` in the console, which confuses me because I expected it to reflect the new state. I've also verified that the API is returning the expected JSON by inspecting the network response in the browser. I thought the scenario might be related to state not being updated synchronously, but according to React's documentation, `setState` should trigger a re-render once the state is updated. Is there something I'm missing here? I’m using React 17.0.2 with no additional state management libraries. Any insights would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Javascript on macOS. Thanks in advance! Any ideas what could be causing this?