I had raised a pull request to Koala's repo so as to make the defaultOptions work with save props ('key' or 'value') and also in a format similar to defaultOption in Select. Not sure whether want to keep it as defaultOption too in the MultiSelect instead of defaultOptions

const App = () => {

  const [selected, setSelected] = React.useState([]);
  
  const data = [
    {key:'1',value:'Jammu & Kashmir'},
    {key:'2',value:'Gujrat'},
    {key:'3',value:'Maharashtra'},
    {key:'4',value:'Goa'},
  ]

  return(
    <MultipleSelectList 
      onSelect={() => alert(selected)}
      setSelected={(val) => setSelected(val)} 
      data={data} 
      save="key"
      defaultOptions={[ {key:'1', value:'Jammu & Kashmir' }, {key:'4', value:'Goa' }]}   //default selected options
    />
  )

};

As KoalaBear mentioned, I saw that MultipleSelectList has a defaultOptions property, but it is not implemented. I am working on an app right now where this functionality would be very helpful. Please get this reviewed and merge soon. Thanks.

Hello, I have been using the library and it would be great to have the functionality of sending the default values ​​to the MultiSelectList. Could you please continue with this PR? Thank you @danish1658

+1

@KoalaBear

Please update useEffect with following error.

Error: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object with keys {key, value}). If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead.

React.useEffect(() => {
        if(defaultOptions && _firstRender){
            const defaultValues = defaultOptions.map((option: L1Keys) => option.value);
            setSelected(defaultValues);
            setSelectedVal(defaultValues);
        }
    }, [_firstRender, defaultOptions])