useEffect not working when trying to fetch information

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I´m trying to fetch user information and show it to the page but when I go to the page it is completely blank and with errors saying that cannot read properties that are null. So I put console.log when it is suppose to fetch and it never shows, which is why I realized that the function inside the useEffect is not being called and I really don't know why.


  function User() {

  const[userInfo, setUserInfo] = useState(null);
  const {user, checkAuth} = useContext(UserContext);
  const [redirect, setRedirect] = useState(false);
  const params = useParams();

  function logout() {
    axios.post('http://localhost:3030/logout', {}, {withCredentials: true})
      .then(() => {
        checkAuth().catch(() => setRedirect(true));
      });
  }

  useEffect(() => {
    function getUserInfo() {
        axios.get('http://localhost:3030/users/'+params.id)
        .then(response => {
          setUserInfo(response.data);
          console.log('here'); //this never shows in the console

        });
    }
    getUserInfo();
  }, [params.id]);

  if (redirect) {
    return (<Navigate to={'/'} />);
  }
 
  return (
    <main>
    <Container>
        <ContainerHeader>
            <StyledHeader>Profile</StyledHeader>
            {!!userInfo && !!user && parseInt(params.id) === user.id && (
            <LinksRow>
            <EditLinkButton to={'/profile'}><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faEdit} />  Edit</EditLinkButton>
            <Button onClick={() => logout()}><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faArrowRight} />  Logout</Button>
            </LinksRow>
            )}
        </ContainerHeader>
        
        <Img src={ProfileImg} alt=""/>
        <Name>{userInfo.first_name} {userInfo.last_name}</Name>
        <Role>{userInfo.role}</Role>
        <Role>{userInfo.sector}</Role>
        <Labels><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faEnvelope}/> {userInfo.email}</Labels>
        <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faLocationDot} /> {userInfo.location} </Labels>
        <Labels>
            <Links href={userInfo.link} target="_blank"> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} /> {userInfo.link}</Links>
        </Labels>
        <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCoins} /> 100 CxCoins</Labels>
        <SecondHeader>Statistics</SecondHeader>
        <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faComment} /> 100 comments</Labels>
        <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faTicket} /> 100 tickets</Labels>
              
    </Container>
    </main>
    
  );
}

export default User

Thank you!

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2 Answers

  1. The API maybe throwing an error, so you code never enters then block. You need to add a catch block and render some ui with the error data or redirect user elsewhere or show a toaster etc... If you want to show a ui, you can add an error state to your component

  2. Until the API fetching the data for you, your userInfo is null, so you cant access for eg. userInfo.first_name. The component throws a rendering error, hence the useEffect never has a chance to run which would run had the rendering was completed successfully. Follow below code where I wait for userInfo to have some data on it before I access any of it's keys

  3. You can alsoconsider adding a loading state to your Component

     function User() {      
   const[userInfo, setUserInfo] = useState(null);
   const {user, checkAuth} = useContext(UserContext);
   const [redirect, setRedirect] = useState(false);
const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
const [error, setError] = useState(false);


   const params = useParams();

   function logout() {
     axios.post('http://localhost:3030/logout', {}, {withCredentials: true})
       .then(() => {
         checkAuth().catch(() => setRedirect(true));
       });
   }

   useEffect(() => {
     function getUserInfo() {
setIsLoading(true)       axios.get('http://localhost:3030/users/'+params.id)
         .then(response => {
           setUserInfo(response.data);
           console.log('here'); //this never shows in the console

         })
 .catch(err=>setError(err?.message)) 
 .finally(() =>setIsLoading(false)) 
     }
     getUserInfo();
   }, [params.id]);

   if (redirect) {
     return (<Navigate to={'/'} />);
   }
 if (isLoading) {
     return (<Loader />);
   }

   return (
     <main>
     <Container>
         <ContainerHeader>
             <StyledHeader>Profile</StyledHeader>
             {!!userInfo && !!user && parseInt(params.id) === user.id && (
             <LinksRow>
             <EditLinkButton to={'/profile'}><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faEdit} />  Edit</EditLinkButton>
             <Button onClick={() => logout()}><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faArrowRight} />  Logout</Button>
             </LinksRow>
             )}
         </ContainerHeader>
 {error && <Error error={error}/> 
{!error &&  Object.keys(userInfo).length>0 && (  <>
         <Img src={ProfileImg} alt=""/>
         <Name>{userInfo.first_name} {userInfo.last_name}</Name>
         <Role>{userInfo.role}</Role>
         <Role>{userInfo.sector}</Role>
         <Labels><FontAwesomeIcon icon={faEnvelope}/> {userInfo.email}</Labels>
         <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faLocationDot} /> {userInfo.location} </Labels>
         <Labels>
             <Links href={userInfo.link} target="_blank"> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} /> {userInfo.link}</Links>
         </Labels>
         <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCoins} /> 100 CxCoins</Labels>
         <SecondHeader>Statistics</SecondHeader>
         <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faComment} /> 100 comments</Labels>
         <Labels> <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faTicket} /> 100 tickets</Labels>

</>) 
}               
     </Container>
     </main>

   );
 }

 export default User
userlLWa10

Move getUserInfo method to outside of the userEffect hook.Then it may be work.

YJR0
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