How to correctly change state of a multiple nested array of objects in React?

Question

What would be the best way to change the state of multiple nested arrays of objects in React? Let's see the example below: I have a component that will display the top playlist for each genre. I have a property genre which is an array of objects and each object has a property songs which is also an array of objects. If I want to change the song named Soldier of Fortune to Child in Time (Let's suppose in Change function as parameters I have indexes of Song and Genre already provided from the UI change). How can I access multiple levels of nested objects and not mutate the state?

this.state = {
    title: 'Top playlists',
    genres: [
      {
        genreName: 'pop',
        followers: 2456,
        songs: [
          {
            title: 'Soldier of fortune',
            author: 'Deep Purple',
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  };

handleChangeSongName = (e, genreIndex, songIndex) => {
    // genreIndex = 0;
    // songIndex = 0;
    // e.target.name = title;
    // e.target.value = "Child in time"  
    ...What to do here?
  }

Answer 1

you can modify your handleChangeSongName function to this:

  handleChangeSongName = (e, genreIndex, songIndex) => {
// genreIndex = 0;
// songIndex = 0;
// e.target.name = title;
// e.target.value = "Child in time"  
this.setState((prevState) => {
  let temp = {
    ...prevState,
    genres: [...prevState.genres]
  }

  // change title "Soldier of fortune" to "Child in time"
  temp.genres[genreIndex].songs[songIndex][e.target.name] = e.target.value

  return temp
})

}

Answer 2

I would change your state like this:

this.state = {
      title: "Top playlists",
      genres: [
        {
          followers: 2456,
          genreName: "pop",
          songs: [
            {
              title: "Soldier of fortune",
              author: "Deep Purple"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    };

and then

handleChangeSongName = (e, genreIndex, songIndex) => {
    // genreIndex = 0;
    // songIndex = 0;
    // e.target.name = title;
    // e.target.value = "Child in time"  
    ...What to do here?

    const genres = _.cloneDeep(this.state.genres); // create deep copy with underscore
    // or like this
    // const genres = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this.state.genres))

    if(genres.length && genres[genreIndex] && genres[genreIndex].songs.length && genres[genreIndex].songs[songIndex]) {
        genres[genreIndex].songs[songIndex][e.target.name] = e.target.value;

        this.setState({
            genres: genres
        });
     }

  }