Get next object in Array useState React

Question

Iam building a quiz-website as practice for React and want to be able to change question with a button. When I change useState(0) manually to 1 the next object renders. But i cant get it to work with the button. When i click the button it jumps straight to the alert message.

function GetMovies() {
  useEffect(() => {
    fetchItems();
  }, []);

  const [items, setItems] = useState({ options: [] });

  const fetchItems = async () => {
    const data = await fetch("http://localhost:5000/api/movies");
    const items = await data.json();
    //test
    //console.log(items[currentQuestion]);
    setItems(items[currentQuestion]);
  };

  
  const [currentQuestion, setCurrentQuestion] = useState(0);

  //change question solution that dont work
  const HandleAnswerButtonClick = () => {
    const nextQuestion = setCurrentQuestion + 1;
    if (nextQuestion < items.length) {
      setCurrentQuestion(nextQuestion);
    } else {
      alert("End of quiz");
    }
    setCurrentQuestion(nextQuestion);
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h1>Quiza</h1>
      <div>
        <span>Question 1</span>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h3>Question: {items.description}</h3>
        {items.options.map((c) => (
          <button value={c.is_correct} key={c.text}>
            {c.text}
          </button>
        ))}
        <div>
        {//Next BUTTON}
          <button onClick={() => HandleAnswerButtonClick()}>
            Next question
          </button>
        </div>
        {/* if-sats, om bild finns till frågan visas den, annars en class med display none */}
        <div className="Q_pics">
          {items.options.map((c) =>
            !c.image ? (
              <p className="Display_none">empty</p>
            ) : (
              <img src={c.image} alt={c.text}></img>
            )
          )}
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

The mongoose schema from my API

const MovieSchema = mongoose.Schema(
  {
    category: { type: String, required: true },
    description: { type: String, required: true },
    image: {
      type: String,
      required: false,
    },
    options: [
      {
        text: {
          type: String,
          required: true,
        },
        is_correct: {
          type: Boolean,
          required: true,
          default: false,
        },
        image: {
          type: String,
          required: false,
        },
      },
    ],
  },
  { collection: "movies" }
); 

Answer 1

That is because

const nextQuestion = setCurrentQuestion + 1;

should be

const nextQuestion = currentQuestion + 1;

---

Oh, and as @Nick Parsons mentioned in a comment, you also only store the first question in your state, since the fetchItems is only run once, and you do setItems(items[currentQuestion]);

You should do something like

function GetMovies() {
  const [items, setItems] = useState([]);    
  const [currentQuestion, setCurrentQuestion] = useState(0);

  const fetchItems = async () => {
    const data = await fetch("http://localhost:5000/api/movies");
    const items = await data.json();
    //test
    //console.log(items[currentQuestion]);
    setItems(items);
  };
  
  //change question solution that dont work
  const HandleAnswerButtonClick = () => {
    const nextQuestion = currentQuestion + 1;
    if (nextQuestion < items.length) {
      setCurrentQuestion(nextQuestion);
    } else {
      alert("End of quiz");
    }
    setCurrentQuestion(nextQuestion);
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    fetchItems();
  }, []);

  const activeQuestion = items[currentQuestion];
  
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h1>Quiza</h1>
      <div>
        <span>Question {currentQuestion + 1}</span>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h3>Question: {activeQuestion && activeQuestion.description}</h3>
        {activeQuestion && activeQuestion.options.map((c) => (
          <button value={c.is_correct} key={c.text}>
            {c.text}
          </button>
        ))}
        <div>
        {//Next BUTTON}
          <button onClick={() => HandleAnswerButtonClick()}>
            Next question
          </button>
        </div>
        {/* if-sats, om bild finns till frågan visas den, annars en class med display none */}
        <div className="Q_pics">
          {activeQuestion && activeQuestion.options.map((c) =>
            !c.image ? (
              <p className="Display_none">empty</p>
            ) : (
              <img src={c.image} alt={c.text}></img>
            )
          )}
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

Answer 2

the code might be like this:

  const [items, setItems] = useState({ options: [] });
    // currentIdx might be a better name
  const [currentIdx, setCurrentIdx] = useState(0);
  const fetchItems = async () => {
    const data = await fetch("http://localhost:5000/api/movies");
    const items = await data.json();
        //  save all data as Nick said. and items should be type of Data[];
    setItems(items);
  };
  const HandleAnswerButtonClick = () => {
    const nextQuestion = currentIdx + 1;
    if (nextQuestion < items.length) {
      setCurrentIdx(nextQuestion);
    } else {
      alert("End of quiz");
    }
  };
    // use displayItem for render 
  const displayItem = useMemo(() => items[currentIdx], [items, currentIdx]);

you'd better learn to use dev tools and watch values of your code I think