Handling TextField change in Fluent UI React - reactjs

Question

Using Fluent UI React, I'm displaying some data from an AppSync API in a TextField. I want to be able to show text from the API for a contact form. I then want to edit that text and click a button to post it back to the AppSync API.
If I use the TextField component on its own, I can then use a hook to set a variable to result of an AppSync API call and then have the TextField component read the value coming from the variable I set with the hook. I can then edit that text as I feel like and its fine.
The problem I have is that if I want to take edits to the TextField and set them using my hook I lose focus on the TextField. To do this I am using the onChange property of TextField. I can set the variable fine but I have to keep clicking back in to the input window.
Any thoughts on how I can keep the focus?
import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { API, graphqlOperation } from 'aws-amplify';
import * as queries from '../../graphql/queries';
import { Fabric, TextField, Stack } from '#fluentui/react';
const PhoneEntryFromRouter = ({
match: {
params: { phoneBookId },
},
}) => PhoneEntry(phoneBookId);
function PhoneEntry(phoneBookId) {
const [item, setItem] = useState({});
useEffect(() => {
async function fetchData() {
try {
const response = await API.graphql(
graphqlOperation(queries.getPhoneBookEntry, { id: phoneBookId })
);
setItem(response.data.getPhoneBookEntry);
} catch (err) {
console.log(
'Unfortuantely there was an error in getting the data: ' +
JSON.stringify(err)
);
console.log(err);
}
}
fetchData();
}, [phoneBookId]);
const handleChange = (e, value) => {
setItem({ ...item, surname: value });
};
const ContactCard = () => {
return (
<Fabric>
<Stack>
<Stack>
<TextField
label='name'
required
value={item.surname}
onChange={handleChange}
/>
</Stack>
</Stack>
</Fabric>
);
};
if (!item) {
return <div>Sorry, but that log was not found</div>;
}
return (
<div>
<ContactCard />
</div>
);
}
export default PhoneEntryFromRouter;
EDIT
I have changed the handleChange function to make use of prevItem. For this event it does accept the event and a value. If you log that value out it is the current value and seems valid.
Despite the change I am still seeing the loss of focus meaning I can only make a one key stroke edit each time.
setItem((prevItem) => {
return { ...prevItem, surname: e.target.value };
});
};```

Answer 1

I think you want the event.target's value:
const handleChange = e => {
setItem(prevItem => { ...prevItem, surname: e.target.value });
};
You should also notice that in your version of handleChange(), value is undefined (only the event e is being passed as a parameter).
Edit: Now I see that you're setting the value item with data from a fetch response on component mount. Still, the value of item.surname is initially undefined, so I would consider adding a conditional in the value of the <TextField /> component:
value={item.surname || ''}