state in constructor or not

[yuminatwca]

Hi, Ninja,

I have watched the 2 series of your React toturials, and I have noticed that you like to use state directly in the class, instead of to put it in the constructor like the React documentation does.

class Foo extends Component{
   state: { 
        name: "Shaun"
   }
}


class Bar extends Component {
    constructor(props){
      super(props);
      this.state= { 
        name: "Shaun"
      }
    }

}

So, would you please explain it a little bit about why you prefer to use state like the above class Foo ? Thanks.

[cyril-nonato]

The above method is more of a shorthand method / modern way of using the state without the using the constructor. You can read this if you want https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-state-without-constructor/