Increasing Value of State Variable in ForEach loop for Progress Bar in React - html

Question

I'm trying to figure out a way to build a progress bar with React. I have a forEach loop that iterates through an array of about 7,000 indexes. Each time I validate a row, I want to update a state variable with percentage completion (and render this on the page live). I've tried iterating through these indexes, and updating my state variable (hoping to update the page) in the loop but I'm realizing that will not work. I obviously can't do this with a normal variable as it will reset when the component re-renders. Can anyone give me some insight on this topic?
Thanks.
Here is a code snippet from what I'm looking at:
parsedAssets.forEach(asset => {
newAssetValidated = validateBulkUpload(asset, parsedAssets, assetList, accountLogged, jobSites);
!newAssetValidated.reject_err ? validatedAssetList.accepted.push(newAssetValidated) : validatedAssetList.rejected.push(newAssetValidated);
setStateAssets({ ...stateAssets, validatedAssetList });
});
}
So essentially, as each asset is either accepted or rejected we add it to "stateAssets", and I'm hoping to build the progress bar from the length of the combined arrays that are getting set in stateAssets. However, when the forEach loop is completed, only the last validated asset is getting set due to it not updating until the forEach loop is completed.

Answer 1

Personally I can't imagine such a heavy validation, that you need progress-bar, but anyway.
First solution is to separate validation itself from state update for progress-bar into separate "threads". But since JS is single threaded, you may use some tricks with setTimeout or setInterval functionality. It may be very tricky, and in general not recommended practice with React.
Another way is - to set the work into queue & process 1 item at a time.
As an example I would do it something like this:
function ComponentWithProgress({parsedAssets, setParsedAssets}) {
const [validatedAssetList, setValidatedAssetList] = useState([])
const [progress, setProgress] = useState(0)
const [toDo, setToDo] = useState([])
if(parsedAssets && parsedAssets.length>0) {
setToDo(parsedAssets)
// clear parsedAssets in parent component to: [], false, null ...
// so you put it into toDo only once
setParsedAssets([])
}
if(toDo.length > 0) {
const asset = toDo[0]
const newToDo = toDo.slice(1) // All but 0th element
const newAssetValidated = validateBulkUpload(asset);
setValidatedAssetList([ ...validatedAssetList, newAssetValidated ]);
setToDo(newToDo)
setProgress( newToDo.length / ( validatedAssetList.length + newToDo.length ) * 100 )
}
// ... Render here
// If you need only accepted
const accepted = validatedAssetList.filter(v => !v.reject_err)
}
This example maybe not work for you as is, because you didn't showed us the context, but the main idea is here.