Reset to Initial State with React Hooks

Question

There is no built-in way to set the state to its initial value, sadly.

Your code looks good, but if you want to decrease the functions needed you can put your entire form state in a single state variable object and reset to the initial object.

Example

const { useState } = React;

function signupUser() {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(resolve, 1000);
  });
}

const initialState = {
  username: "",
  email: "",
  password: "",
  passwordConfirmation: ""
};

const Signup = () => {
  const [
    { username, email, password, passwordConfirmation },
    setState
  ] = useState(initialState);

  const clearState = () => {
    setState({ ...initialState });
  };

  const onChange = e => {
    const { name, value } = e.target;
    setState(prevState => ({ ...prevState, [name]: value }));
  };

  const handleSubmit = e => {
    e.preventDefault();
    signupUser().then(clearState);
  };

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
      <div>
        <label>
          Username:
          <input value={username} name="username" onChange={onChange} />
        </label>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label>
          Email:
          <input value={email} name="email" onChange={onChange} />
        </label>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label>
          Password:
          <input
            value={password}
            name="password"
            type="password"
            onChange={onChange}
          />
        </label>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label>
          Confirm Password:
          <input
            value={passwordConfirmation}
            name="passwordConfirmation"
            type="password"
            onChange={onChange}
          />
        </label>
      </div>
      <button>Submit</button>
    </form>
  );
};

ReactDOM.render(<Signup />, document.getElementById("root"));

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>

<div id="root"></div>

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