Type hinting for React states

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Hi,

Small question, I found that React.useState reflects the returned value in the type of the first list item, so let (e, setE) = React.useState(_ => null) would turn e into a nullable. I’ve got a type that I wrote out for the value of a state I want to track, however, it only gets populated later by an effect. I want the initial value to be null though, since I can’t create an empty instance of my type. How do I solve this?

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It’s better to use option type for this. To create an empty value you can write None.

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How would I write this in my useState call?

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You would just use None instead of null.

let (e, setE) = React.useState(_ => None)

and then somehwere store your effect with setE(_ => Some(myEffect))

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