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title: "Why Doesn’t React Show the New State Immediately After setState?"  
description: "Why Doesn’t React Show the New State Immediately After setState?"  
author: "Ruslan Galiev"  
published: 2026-10-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/118317/why-doesn-t-react-show-the-new-state-immediately-after-setstate  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["react", "javascript", "Frontend development"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why Doesn’t React Show the New State Immediately After setState?

I’m trying to understand a behavior I keep running into in a React component: after calling a state setter, logging the state on the next line still prints the old value.

```js
function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  function handleClick() {
    setCount(count + 1); // Requests an update using the current render's count.
    console.log(count);  // Still reads the value captured by this render.
  }

  return <button onClick={handleClick}>{count}</button>;
}
```

Is this mainly because React batches updates, or because the handler keeps a snapshot of the state from the render where it was created? I’d also like to know when a functional update is the better choice, especially if several updates can happen in quick succession.


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