React Native Firebase authentication error handling

Question

How to set state ('this.setState({})') inside error handling function for Firebase auth?

its not working in React Native.

  onSignUpPress() {
    if (this.state.password !== this.state.passwordConfirmation ) {
      return this.setState({errorMessage: 'Your passwords do not match'});
    }

      ref.createUser({
        email    : this.state.email,
        password : this.state.password
      }, function(error, authData) {
        if (error) {
            console.log(error);
            // this.setState({errorMsg: error}) <-- Like this, it not work on React Native.
        } else {
            console.log("Successfully created user account with uid:", userData.uid);
        }
    });
  }
});

Answer 1

Try rewriting the function using es6 fat arrow syntax. One issue for sure in the above code is that this is not bound to the correct scope. Try writing the function like this:

onSignUpPress() {
    if (this.state.password !== this.state.passwordConfirmation ) {
      return this.setState({errorMessage: 'Your passwords do not match'});
    }

      ref.createUser({
        email    : this.state.email,
        password : this.state.password
      },(error, authData) => {
        if (error) {
            console.log(error);
            this.setState({errorMsg: error})
        } else {
            console.log("Successfully created user account with uid:", userData.uid);
        }
    });
  }
})