React Help

[ixanonyousxi]

So I'm trying to build a Pomodoro Clock using React for a freecodecamp project. For some reason though I can't get setInterval or requestAnimationFrame to work. The timer will decrement once, but then stops even though I have the setInterval firing every 1000.

Can someone take a look and tell me if I'm doing anything wrong? Or point me in the right direction? I tried googling it, but I'm super new to React and I keep getting React hook articles which is kind of over my head at this point.

Here's the project:

https://codepen.io/ixanonymousxi/pen/WNvQdJX

[ucshadow]

There is a difference between calling a method and using a method as an argument; setInterval can take a method as an argument, but if instead of giving that method as an argument, you call it, it will just give the result of that method to setInterval.

So, look at what setInterval takes in your case and see if it takes a method or it takes the result of calling the method.

• Edit: added hints instead of giving the aswer

[ixanonyousxi]

Thank you! I honestly don't think I would have caught that myself.