no-unused-state.md

Disallow definitions of unused state (react/no-unused-state)

Warns you if you have defined a property on the state, but it is not being used anywhere.

Rule Details

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  state = { foo: 0 };
  render() {
    return <SomeComponent />;
  }
}

var UnusedGetInitialStateTest = createReactClass({
  getInitialState: function() {
    return { foo: 0 };
  },
  render: function() {
    return <SomeComponent />;
  }
})

Examples of correct code for this rule:

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  state = { foo: 0 };
  render() {
    return <SomeComponent foo={this.state.foo} />;
  }
}

var UnusedGetInitialStateTest = createReactClass({
  getInitialState: function() {
    return { foo: 0 };
  },
  render: function() {
    return <SomeComponent foo={this.state.foo} />;
  }
})