Why isn’t useState updating my array in React Native with async-await functions? [duplicate]

cards useState not updating in React Native but the array is updated

const [cards, setCards] = useState([]);
let array = [];

useEffect(() => {
        const fetchData = async () => {
          try {
            const response = await getInventory();
            let x = response.data;
            setCards(x);
            console.log(x);
            console.log(cards);
            array = x;
            
         } catch (error) {
           console.error(error);
        }
      };
      
        fetchData();
      }, []);

I tried to put the cards in the square brackets and then it went into a loop so that the first time it printed an empty array and the other times it printed the array with the desired information that comes from the server, so my conclusion is that it doesn’t happen the first time but it does the following times