Let's say I have an app which looks like this:
<>
<Component />
<button>Add New Component</button>
</>
How can I make it so every time the button is clicked, a new <Component /> is being appended? It's not about conditional rendering when we show a component or hide it, It's about a possibility to add unlimited amount of new components. Do you have any ideas?
The general workflow is that you store component data (or just identifiers) in an array in state. You then map over the array to render your Component list. The button adds a new identifier/data set to the array.
const App = () => {
const [list, setList] = useState([0]);
const addComponent = () => {
setList([...list, list.length]);
};
return (
<>
{list.map(id => <Component key={id} />)}
<button onClick={addComponent}>Add New Component</button>
</>
)
};
This is a very simple example. In reality you would want to assign unique ids for the keys and probably package it with some more data as an object, but you get the idea.
Related
Let's say that I have this component:
const Test = ({ children, ...rest }) => {
return <>{children}</>
};
export default Test;
I am wondering if it is possible to create a variable that holds the component like this:
const test = <Test></Test>;
And then loop over some data and push children to the test variable on every iteration.
if you don't have the data yet, then all you have to do is conditionally render your component when you do have the data.
{ data ? (<Test>{data.map(...)}</Test>) : <SomeOtherComponent /> /* or null */}
or
{ data ? <>{data.map((x) => <Test>{x}</Test>)}</> : <SomeOtherComponent /> /* or null */}
depending on what you want achieve, i didn't fully understand your question
i.e. if you have the data you need, render the component, rendering the children as you see fit, otherwise render some other component (or null, to render nothing)
Yeap, try that pattern:
const test = (children) => <Test>{children}</Test>;
and usage
<>
{[1,2,3].map(el=>test(el))}
</>
[Edited]
const TestComp = ({children}) => <Test>{children}</Test>;
<>
{[1,2,3].map(el=>(<TestComp>{el}</TestComp>))}
</>
I'm a bit surprised I'm having trouble finding this online, but I can't seem to find an example of how to do this in a React functional component. I have a React component that I would like to render when I click a button. Right now the function fires and I can see my console.log firing, however the component isn't rendering. My first guess was that it won't render because React doesn't know to update the view, however I added boolean via useState and it still won't render. What am I doing wrong?
Below is the relevant code. How can I get the component in addSection to render?
const FormGroup = ({index}) => {
const [additionalSection, setAdditionalSection] = useState(false);
const addSection = form => {
setAdditionalSection(true);
console.log('form', form);
return additionalSection && (
<div key={form.prop}>
<p>This should render</p>
<AdditiveSection
form={form}
register={register}
errors={errors}
/>
</div>
);
};
...
return (
...
<FormAdd>
<LinkButton
type="button"
onClick={() => addSection(form)}
>
span className="button--small">{form.button}</span>
</LinkButton>
</FormAdd>
);
You should change your state (or a prop in your useEffect dependency array in case you had one) in order to force a rerender. In this case:
setAdditionalSection(prevState=>!prevState);
A state change like the one you are calling, will trigger a re-render.
But all html to be rendered must be included in the functional components return statement.
The elements you want to render can be conditionally rendered like this:
const FormGroup = ({index}) => {
const [additionalSection, setAdditionalSection] = useState(false);
const addSection = form => {
setAdditionalSection(true);
console.log('form', form);
};
...
return (
...
<FormAdd>
<LinkButton
type="button"
onClick={() => addSection(form)}
>
<span className="button--small">{form.button}</span>
</LinkButton>
{additionalSection &&
<div key={form.prop}>
<p>This should render</p>
<AdditiveSection
form={form}
register={register}
errors={errors}
/>
</div>
}
</FormAdd>
);
so what I am trying to achieve here is storing a whole component in an array in a parent component which renders a specific component in the array using its index for example :
export const Test = () => {
const [components, setComponents] = useState([
<Order key={1} />,
<Order key={2} />,
<Order key={3} />,
]);
const [index, setIndex] = useState(0);
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => setIndex((old) => (old + 1) % components.length)}>
change
</button>
{`page ` + index}
{components[index]}
</div>
);
};
const Order = () => {
const [someState, setSomeState] = useState(1);
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => setSomeState((old) => old + 1)}>
{someState}
</button>
</div>
);
};
when I change the state of one item then cycle through the items then return to the item which I changed its state i found that it is not updated
what I figured out is that the component in the array (in the Test component) doesn't get updated and I couldn't figure out how to update it
what I don't want to do is storing the state of the order item in the parent and pass it as props (because it will be a pain to make it work)
const App = ({ flag }) => {
if (flag) <Order />
return null
}
I'm giving you an example so i can explain what might happen in your case. If the flag becomes false from a true, the App turns blank. But what happen to the Order? It's unmounted, why? Since when React compares between the previous scene and the current scene, it notice there's no such Order any more. So what you think about the memory of component of Order (which is called a fiber)?
I guess the answer is, the memory goes to be deleted and will be collected for future use.
Now back to your case, you are using an id to switch to different component. But in theory it should behave very similar to my example for each component.
NOTE: the take away is that if you want to use an array, that's fine, but all components has to be rendered at ALL time, you can hide them, but you can't unmount any of them.
what I don't want to do is storing the state of the order item in the
parent and pass it as props (because it will be a pain to make it
work)
Your problem is that when you render a Test component and then increase index, then you render another Test component with a different key, so reacts reconciliation algorithm unmounts the old one and you lose the state.
You have two options:
lift state of each Test component up, then when one gets unmounted, you will remount it with the old state, because state will be stored in parent, it will not be lost
another option is to render all components and only show those which you want using CSS display property, this way none of them gets unmounted and you retain state. Here is example:
const Order = () => {
const [someState, setSomeState] = React.useState(1);
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => setSomeState((old) => old + 1)}>
{someState}
</button>
</div>
);
};
let components = [<Order />, <Order />, <Order />];
const Test = () => {
const [index, setIndex] = React.useState(0);
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => setIndex((old) => (old + 1) % components.length)}>
change
</button>
{`page ` + index}
{[0, 1, 2].map((x) => (
<div key={x} style={{ display: index === x ? "block" : "none" }}>
{components[x]}
</div>
))}
</div>
);
};
ReactDOM.render(
<Test />,
document.getElementById("react")
);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/17.0.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/17.0.1/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="react"></div>
PS I have removed components from state, I can't find official info now, but IMHO it is not good idea to store components in state.
Am trying to render a new component onclick a button in react js. Am using functional components and I can't handle it. Eg: am in the UserManagement component and on a button click I need to render another component named employee management.
You can conditionally render your component.
Example :
EmployeeManagement.js
const EmployeeManagement = () => {
....
return (
<div>
EmployeeManagement
</div>
);
}
UserManagement.js
const UserManagement = () => {
const [hasRender, setRender] = useState(false);
const onShow = React.useCallback(() => setRender(true), []);
return (
<>
<button onClick={onShow}>Show Employee Management</button>
{hasRender && <EmployeeManagement />}
</>
)
}
One way to do this would be to add a local state in UserManagement,
that holds a boolean value indication whether the component should be hidden or shown.
Then you will have something like:
function UserManagement() {
const [compIsShown, setCompIsShown] = useState(false);
return (
// Whatever else you're rendering.
<button onClick={() => setCompIsShown(true)}>...</button>
{compIsShown && <OtherComp />}
)
}
What will happen is that compIsShown will initialize as false,
so this condition compIsShown && <OtherComp /> will prevent it from rendering.
Then, when you click the button, the state will set, causing a re-render, except now the condition will be true, so <OtherComp> will be rendered.
There are other ways to go about this.
Depends mostly on the use-case.
use a visible state & toggle it in onClick:
const [visible, setVisible] = useState(false)
onClick = () => {setVisible(true)}
then render it like this:
{visible && <EmployeeManagement onClick={onClick} />}
function fun(){
const [contentArray,setContentArray] = useState([]);
setContentArray([...contentArray, <A />]);
setContentArray([...contentArray, <A />]);
setContentArray([...contentArray, <A />]);
return(
<div>
{
contentArray.map( (component:React.ReactNode,i:number) => {
return(
component
)}
}
</div>
})
);
}
above code works fine as long as i dont want to pass any prop to these array elements of "contentArray" array.but i want to pass indexes as props to these array elements
code sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/quirky-cray-u4jr1?from-embed
while setting the state it should be done as below
setState(prevState => [...prevState, A]
and while rendering it it should b rendered as below
{state.map((Comp, i) => {
return <Comp key={i} index={i} />;
})}
Note: no need to specify type as React.ReactNode, and you need to lookout for not setting state inside render, react doesn't allow it, in order to avoid infinite loop.
Thanks for showing way to do it #bpas247
https://codesandbox.io/s/broken-flower-z87mt