How can I default category through api

August 17, 2022

I have written a project which receives data through an api. Clicking on each button displays corresponding news. For example, when you press the sports button, sports news comes. However, I want the All category to be active when the page is first opened. In other words, those news should have arrived without pressing the all button. How can I do this?

Not – The function inside useffect returns every time it renders and it doesn’t work for me. For example, when you refresh the page while reading sports news, all news comes

import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import SpinnerLoad from './components/SpinnerLoad'
import NewsItem from "./components/NewsItem";
import Category from "./components/data/Category"
const App = () => {

  const [state, setState] = useState([]);
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false)


  const fetchValue = (category) => {
    fetch(`https://inshorts-api.herokuapp.com/news?category=${category}`)
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(res => {
        setState(res.data)
        setLoading(true)
      })
      .catch((error) => console.log(error))
      setLoading(false);
  };

  const CategoryButton = ({ category }) => (
    <button onClick={() => fetchValue(category)} style={{ textTransform: 'capitalize' }}>{category}</button>
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    fetchValue('all')
  }, [])

  return (
    <>

      <div className="header-bg">
        <h1 className="mb-3">News</h1>
        <div className="btns ">
          {Category.map((value, index) => {
            return <CategoryButton category={value} key={index} />;
          })}
        </div>
      </div>

      <div className="news">
        <div className="container">
          <div className="row">
            { 
            !loading 
            ? <SpinnerLoad/>
             :
            state.map((data,index) => {
              return (
                <NewsItem
                  imageUrl={data.imageUrl}
                  author={data.author}
                  title={data.title}
                  content={data.content}
                  date={data.date}
                  key={data.id}
                />
              );
            })
            }
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </>
  );
};
export default App;

import React from 'react'
import clock from "../components/assets/img/Clock.svg"
import user from "../components/assets/img/User.svg"
const NewsItem = (props) => {

    const {imageUrl, title, content, date, author} = props

    return (
        <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-12 p-2">
            <div className="newsItem">
                <img src={imageUrl} alt=''/>
                <div className="itemBody">
                    <p className='title'>{title}</p>
                    <div className="line"></div>
                    <p className='content'>{content}</p>
                    <div className="itemfooter">
                        <h6><img src={clock} alt='clock'/>{date}</h6>
                        <h6><img src={user} alt='user'/>{author}</h6>
                    </div>
                </div>

            </div>
        </div>
    )
}

export default NewsItem

>Solution :

In react, if you refresh the app , the state values will reinitialise.

From your question , it seems like you want to store the category value and even after refresh , you want to persist the category value..

For that you can store category value in local or sessionStorage..

 const fetchValue = (category) => {
  localStorage.setItem("category", category);
  // your code
 }

 // in useEffect , you can check for the category value in the local Storage

useEffect(() => {
// check value in localStorage, if does not exist use "all" as default value
let categoryValue = localStorage.getItem("category") || "all" ;
fetchValue(categoryValue)
},[]);