Promises bug in retool app

[jg80]

Accessing query data within trigger().then does not work

I believe it's because Retool is a big React app and that's how setState in React works. setState() does not always immediately update the component. It may batch or defer the update until later. This makes reading this.state right after calling setState() a potential pitfall. It's the same reason that setting a variable and immediately reading from it without checking Keep variable references inside the query in sync with your app doesn't work. As your Javascript runs it doesn't defer to …