How can i define a default value for react-select v1 - reactjs

Question

I had a react-select rendering a list of emails, and i need to keep the selected emails as a default option when the email is selected and saved, but the defaultValues are not working. How can i do that?
Here is my select component:
const [selectedOption, setSelectedOption] = useState("")
const makeEmailOption = item => ({
value: item.id,
label: item.ccEmail,
id: item.id,
chipLabel: item.ccEmail,
rest: item,
selected: item.selected
})
const makeEmailOptions = items => items.map(makeEmailOption)
const handleChange = (value) => {
setSelectedOption(value)
props.emails(value)
}
return (
<div>
<Select
multi={true}
name={props.name}
options={makeEmailOptions(props.ccemailfilter)}
onChange={handleChange}
value={selectedOption}
/>
</div>
)
I receive everything as props and work with that to make the options. How can i do that to make the default value if a field selected is true?

Answer 1

You almost have it, but in this case, you are setting the value to the selectedOption instead of setting the defaultValue. Also, you are changing the default value each time there is a change, which shouldn't be needed.
const defaultVal = {value: selectedOption, label: selectedOption};
return (
<div>
<Select
multi={true}
name={props.name}
options={makeEmailOptions(props.ccemailfilter)}
defaultValue={defaultVal}
/>
</div>
)

Answer 2

I came with the following solution, since my component use a function to set some variables to the select, i use a useEffect to call that with a filter right after the page render.
useEffect(() => {
handleChange(makeEmailOption(props.ccemailfilter.filter(x => x.selected)))
}, [])
const handleChange = (value) => {
setSelectedOption(value)
props.emails(value)
}
So, the handleChange are called on the onChange of the select and once after the page loads, to create a value to the select to use.