Writing data to Firestore

Learn how to write, update and delete data using Firestore in Makerkit

Similarly to reading data from Firestore, we may want to create a `custom hook`` also when we write, update or delete data.

Assuming we have an entity called tasks, and we want to create a hook to create a new Task, we can do the following.

First, we create a new hook at lib/tasks/hooks/use-create-task.ts
We add the tasks collection name to lib/firestore-collections
Wrap the addDoc function from Firestore within a useCallback hook

lib/tasks/hooks/use-create-task.ts

import { TASKS_COLLECTION } from '~/lib/firestore-collections';
function useCreateTask() {
 const firestore = useFirestore();
 const tasksCollection = collection(firestore, TASKS_COLLECTION);
 return useCallback(
   (task: Task) => {
     return addDoc(tasksCollection, task);
   },
   [tasksCollection]
 );
}

And now, we could use this hook within a component:

function Component() {
  const createTask = useCreateTask();
  return <MyForm onSubmit={task => createTask(task)} />
}

Let's take a look at a complete example of a form that makes a request using the hook above:

components/tasks/NewTaskForm.tsx

const CreateTaskForm = () => {
 const createTask = useCreateTask();
 const { setLoading, state } = useRequestState();
 const router = useRouter();
 const organization = useCurrentOrganization();
 const organizationId = organization?.id as string;
 const onCreateTask: FormEventHandler<HTMLFormElement> = useCallback(
   async (event) => {
     event.preventDefault();
     const target = event.currentTarget;
     const data = new FormData(target);
     const name = data.get('name') as string;
     const dueDate = data.get('dueDate') as string;
     setLoading(true);
     const task = {
       organizationId,
       name,
       dueDate,
       description: ``,
       done: false,
     };
     const promise = createTask(task).then(() => {
       return router.push(`/tasks`);
     });
     await toaster.promise(promise, {
       success: `Task created!`,
       error: `Ops, error!`,
       loading: `Creating task...`,
     });
   },
   [router, createTask, organizationId, setLoading]
 );
 return (
   <div>
     <form onSubmit={onCreateTask}>
       <div className={'flex flex-col space-y-3'}>
         <TextField.Label>
           Name
           <TextField.Input
             required
             name={'name'}
             placeholder={'ex. Launch on IndieHackers'}
           />
           <TextField.Hint>Hint: whatever you do, ship!</TextField.Hint>
         </TextField.Label>
         <TextField.Label>
           Due date
           <TextField.Input
             required
             defaultValue={getDefaultDueDate()}
             name={'dueDate'}
             type={'date'}
           />
         </TextField.Label>
         <div
           className={
             'flex flex-col space-y-2 md:space-y-0 md:space-x-2' +
             ' md:flex-row'
           }
         >
           <Button loading={state.loading}>
             <If condition={state.loading} fallback={<>Create Task</>}>
               Creating Task...
             </If>
           </Button>
           <Button color={'transparent'} href={'/tasks'}>
             Go back
           </Button>
         </div>
       </div>
     </form>
   </div>
 );
};
function getDefaultDueDate() {
 const date = new Date();
 const year = date.getFullYear();
 const month = pad(date.getMonth() + 1);
 const day = pad(date.getDate() + 1);
 return `${year}-${month}-${day}`;
}
function pad(n: number) {
 return n < 10 ? `0${n}` : n.toString();
}
export default CreateTaskForm;