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How to add items to array in react

Code:

export default function App() {
  const [name,setName] = useState("");
  var myArray = [];
  const handleAdd = () => {
    myArray = [...myArray,name]
    setName("")
  }
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <input placeholder="type a name" onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}/>
      <button onClick={handleAdd}>add</button> 
      <button onClick={() => console.log(myArray)}>test</button>
      {myArray.map((n) => {
        return <h2>{n}</h2> 
      })}
    </div>
  );
}

OnClick it isn’t adding the name to the array.

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>Solution :

this is how you "push" to an array with useState

const [array, setArray] = useState([])
setArray(previous => [...previuous, newItem])
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