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Lightning Web Component setting dynamic style not working as expected

I'm currently trying to render a specific class across two lightning-badge components that is suppose to change both badges from inverse to success, but am getting this instead:
When the value on the left badge equals the value on the right (so in this case both are 3), they should both be green, otherwise they should both be grey. They should never be seperate colours.
The value on the left increases as the user saves a record and is checked on status of "Completed". For some reason only the class on the second badge is being updated with the new class that includes slds-theme_success. I may be missing something small, but just haven't been able to figure it out. Please see code below:
badgeClass = "slds-badge_inverse slds-var-m-horizontal_x-small slds-col";
get patientsCompleted() {
if(this.records) {
let completedArr = this.records.filter(value => value.fields.Status__c.value == "Completed");
if(completedArr.length === this.patientsTotal) {
this.badgeClass = "slds-badge_inverse slds-theme_success slds-var-m-horizontal_x-small slds-col";
}
return completedArr.length;
}
};
get patientsTotal(){
if(this.records) {
return this.records.length;
}
};
<span class="slds-col_bump-left">
<div class="slds-grid slds-gutters">
<lightning-badge class={badgeClass} label={patientsCompleted}></lightning-badge>
<div class="slds-col"> of </div>
<lightning-badge class={badgeClass} label={patientsTotal}></lightning-badge>
</div>
</span>

Have you tried moving badgeClass to a getter? Something like this:
get patientsCompleted() {
if(this.records) {
let completedArr = this.records.filter(value => value.fields.Status__c.value == "Completed");
// No longer needed
// if(completedArr.length === this.patientsTotal) {
// this.badgeClass = "slds-badge_inverse slds-theme_success slds-var-m-horizontal_x-small slds-col";
// }
return completedArr.length;
}
};
get patientsTotal(){
if(this.records) {
return this.records.length;
}
};
get badgeClass() {
let baseClass = "slds-badge_inverse slds-var-m-horizontal_x-small slds-col";
return this.patientsCompleted === this.patientsTotal ? `${baseClass} slds-theme_success` : `${baseClass}`
}
I suspect LWC field tracking has some precautionary mechanism and didn't trigger the update.
I am not sure but perhaps if 0 records are available you want the badges to remain gray? In that case include this.patientsTotal > 0 in the get badgeClass() {...}.
Happy coding.

Changing a HTML element dynamically

I have a side drawer where I'm showing the current cart products selected by the user. Initially, I have a <p> tag saying the cart is empty. However, I want to remove it if the cart has items inside. I'm using an OOP approach to design this page. See below the class I'm working with.
I tried to use an if statement to condition the <p> tag but this seems the wrong approach. Anyone has a better way to do this. See screenshot of the cart in the UI and code below:
class SideCartDrawer {
cartProducts = [];
constructor() {
this.productInCartEl = document.getElementById('item-cart-template');
}
addToCart(product) {
const updatedProducts = [...this.cartProducts];
updatedProducts.push(product);
this.cartProducts = updatedProducts;
this.renderCart();
}
renderCart() {
const cartListHook = document.getElementById('cart-items-list');
let cartEl = null;
if (this.cartProducts.length === 0) {
cartEl = '<h2>You Cart is Empty</h2>';
} else {
const productInCartElTemplate = document.importNode(
this.productInCartEl.content,
true
);
cartEl = productInCartElTemplate.querySelector('.cart-item');
for (let productInCart of this.cartProducts) {
cartEl.querySelector('h3').textContent = productInCart.productName;
cartEl.querySelector('p').textContent = `£ ${productInCart.price}`;
cartEl.querySelector('span').textContent = 1;
}
}
cartListHook.append(cartEl);
}
}
By the way, the <p> should reappear if the cart is back to empty :) !

With how your code is setup, you would want to reset the list on each render. You would do this by totally clearing out #cart-items-list. Here is a deletion method from this question
while (cartListHook.firstChild) {
cartListHook.removeChild(cartListHook.lastChild);
}
But you could use any method to delete the children of an HTML Node. To reiterate, you would put this right after getting the element by its id.
P.S. You probably want to put more code into your for loop, because it seems like it will only create cart-item element even if there are multiple items in this.cartProducts.

Conditional cell rendering in react-table

I have a column for buttons to toggle a modal. The problem is, I don't want to display the button for every single row. I only want to display the button on the first entry of the color.
Note that the colors are unpredictable (you don't know what colors will be displayed beforehand).
For example,
color toggler
black +
red +
red //don't display it here
yellow +
blue +
blue //don't display it here
blue //don't display it here
orange +
red +
black +
black //don't display it here
blue +
I have try to go through the document and some example, but I can't seem to find a solution to it (maybe something that I missed ?).
What I did was storing the first color in the state. Then I did with the theCheckFunc:
let flag = true
if (nextColor !== this.state.color)
this.setState({color: nextColor})
flag = false
return flag
Then in the columns I did.
Cell: props => (this.theCheckFunc(props) && <div onClick={somefunc}> + <div>)
However, everything seems to be frozen. The browser doesn't even respond.
Any good suggestion on how to do this ?

Don't use state with this, since you don't want to re-render based on new input. Instead, compute the array as part of the render.
For example, assuming that when you get to your render statement, you have a random array of colors like this:
['red', 'red', 'black', 'purple', 'purple']
Then this function could create the array you need with the data for render:
function getTableRowData(arr) {
let tableRowData = []
arr.forEach((color, n) => {
let toggler = true
if (n !== 0 && arr[n - 1] === color) {
toggler = false
}
tableRowData.push({ color, toggler, })
})
return tableRowData
}
Then you can iterate over the tableRowData in your render return and have it display the way you want to.

First set your color control variables in state or in class wherever you choose. In this example i'm choosing to control them over state.
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
firstRedAlreadyHere: false,
firstBlueAlreadyHere: false,
firstGrayAlreadyHere:false,
....
...
}
}
then open a function to prepare a table. Later Use that function in render() to put table on component.
function putValuesToTable()
{
let table = [];
for (let i = 0; i < (YOUR_LENGTH); i++) {
{
let children = []; /* SUB CELLS */
/* IF RED COLOR IS NEVER CAME BEFORE, PUT A BUTTON NEAR IT */
if(!this.state.firstRedAlreadyHere)
children.push(<td>
<SomeHtmlItem></SomeHtmlItem></td> <td><button </button></td>)
/* ELSE DON'T PUT BUTTON AND CHANGE STATE. */
else
{
children.push(<SomeHtmlItem></SomeHtmlItem>);
this.state.firstRedAlreadyHere = true;
}
table.push(<tr>{children}</tr>);
}
}
return table;
}
I am changing state directly instead of this.setState(); because I don't want to trigger a refresh :). In render function, call putValuesToTable like this
render()
{
return (<div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SomeParameter</th>
<th>SomeParameter2</th>
</tr>
{this.putValuesToTable}
</tbody>
</table>
</div>);
}
Use this example to extend your code according to your aim.

What is a more optimal way to change out an HTML element's.onClick element inside of a javascript function?

I'm playing around with a webapp using React. My code currently creates a list of buttons that can change the color of a circle, depending on the randomly-generated button the user clicks on. To enhance my code, when the user clicks the button, I want all of the buttons colors to change, and therefore need to update all of the button's onClick functions, since they pass their color as an argument to the function that changes the circle's color. Below is the solution I currently have: it requires me to remove every button, and then completely reconstruct the button. Just using button.onclick = function() { newOnclickFunction} does not work, and I have not been able to find the answer on my own. Any help would be greatly appreciated; I'm almost certain there's a better a way to do it than this.
let reflipPalleteCompletely = () => {
let everyButtonPossible = document.getElementsByClassName("colorChangeButton")
for( var button of everyButtonPossible){
button.style.backgroundColor = randomColor()
let myParent = button.parentElement
myParent.removeChild(button)
let freshButton = document.createElement("button", {value: "Click", className: "colorChangeButton", })
freshButton.innerHTML = 'Click'
freshButton.className = 'colorChangeButton'
freshButton.style.backgroundColor = randomColor()
let newOnclickFunction = () => { changeToNewColor(button.style.backgroundColor); reflipPalleteCompletely() }
freshButton.onclick = function() { newOnclickFunction() }
myParent.appendChild(freshButton)

The short answer is: if each button is supposed to change color to reflect the color value it represents, and that set of colors is re-randomized every time a button is pressed, then you can't and shouldn't avoid re-render of the buttons.
However, Mike is right: you're not using React properly if you're writing your own element-creation scripts.
Your component might look like this:
const buttonCount = 10
class Demo extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props)
this.state = {
currentColor: getRandomColor()
}
}
setColor = (newColor, event) => {
this.setState({
currentColor: newColor
})
}
render() {
let {
currentColor
} = this.props
let colorChoices = Array(buttonCount)
.fill()
.map(() => getRandomColor())
return (
<div className="Demo">
<div className="the-shape" style={{ backgroundColor: currentColor }} />
<ol className="color-choices">
{
colorChoices.map( color => (
<button key={ color }
style={{ backgroundColor: color }}
onClick={ this.setColor.bind(this, color) }
>
{ color }
</button>
))
}
</ol>
</div>
)
}
}
This all depends on you having a getRandomColor function that can generate a color. And it doesn't address making sure that the choices don't include the current color (although you could easily do that by e.g. generating 2n colors, filtering out the currentColor, then taking the first n, or somesuch).
If you really hate redrawing the buttons, you could save their refs and then have the setColor method iterate through them and modify their styles.
But the point of React is to avoid procedural mutation of the DOM in favor of declaring the desired DOM and letting the React engine figure out an efficient mutation strategy.
A direct answer to the question you asked: "what's a more optimal way to change out an HTML element's.onClick element?" might be: find a pattern that doesn't require you to change the function every time.
Instead of having this:
let newOnclickFunction = () => { changeToNewColor(button.style.backgroundColor); reflipPalleteCompletely() }
Try something like this instead:
function onClickButton(event) {
let button = event.target
let color = button.style.backgroundColor
changeToNewColor(color)
}
This way, the desired color value isn't baked into the onClick function. Instead, the function examines the button whose click invoked it, and uses its background as the argument to changeToNewColor.
With some clever CSS, you could write the desired color to a data- prop on each button, and have the browser do the work of calculating background-color from that. Then you could use event delegation on some ancestor element that contains all the buttons, that listens for a click on any element with that data- prop and does the same work as above. This way, you don't even have a click function on each button.

Using Javascript loop to create multiple HTML elements

I would like to use a javascript loop to create multiple HTML wrapper elements and insert JSON response API data into some of the elements (image, title, url, etc...).
Is this something I need to go line-by-line with?
<a class="scoreboard-video-outer-link" href="">
<div class="scoreboard-video--wrapper">
<div class="scoreboard-video--thumbnail">
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/350x150">
</div>
<div class="scoreboard-video--info">
<div class="scoreboard-video--title">Pelicans # Bulls Postgame: E'Twaun Moore 10-8-17</div>
</div>
</div>
</a>
What I am trying:
var link = document.createElement('a');
document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].setAttribute("class", "scoreboard-video-outer-link");
document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].setAttribute("url", "google.com");
mainWrapper.appendChild(link);
var videoWrapper= document.createElement('div');
document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].setAttribute("class", "scoreboard-video-outer-link");
link.appendChild(videoWrapper);
var videoThumbnailWrapper = document.createElement('div');
document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].setAttribute("class", "scoreboard-video--thumbnail");
videoWrapper.appendChild(videoThumbnailWrapper);
var videoImage = document.createElement('img');
document.getElementsByTagName("img")[0].setAttribute("src", "url-of-image-from-api");
videoThumbnailWrapper.appendChild(videoImage);
Then I basically repeat that process for all nested HTML elements.
Create A-tag
Create class and href attributes for A-tag
Append class name and url to attributes
Append A-tag to main wrapper
Create DIV
Create class attributes for DIV
Append DIV to newly appended A-tag
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could enlighten me on the best way to do what I'm trying to explain here? Seems like it would get very messy.

Here's my answer. It's notated. In order to see the effects in the snippet you'll have to go into your developers console to either inspect the wrapper element or look at your developers console log.
We basically create some helper methods to easily create elements and append them to the DOM - it's really not as hard as it seems. This should also leave you in an easy place to append JSON retrieved Objects as properties to your elements!
Here's a Basic Version to give you the gist of what's happening and how to use it
//create element function
function create(tagName, props) {
return Object.assign(document.createElement(tagName), (props || {}));
}
//append child function
function ac(p, c) {
if (c) p.appendChild(c);
return p;
}
//example:
//get wrapper div
let mainWrapper = document.getElementById("mainWrapper");
//create link and div
let link = create("a", { href:"google.com" });
let div = create("div", { id: "myDiv" });
//add link as a child to div, add the result to mainWrapper
ac(mainWrapper, ac(div, link));
//create element function
function create(tagName, props) {
return Object.assign(document.createElement(tagName), (props || {}));
}
//append child function
function ac(p, c) {
if (c) p.appendChild(c);
return p;
}
//example:
//get wrapper div
let mainWrapper = document.getElementById("mainWrapper");
//create link and div
let link = create("a", { href:"google.com", textContent: "this text is a Link in the div" });
let div = create("div", { id: "myDiv", textContent: "this text is in the div! " });
//add link as a child to div, add the result to mainWrapper
ac(mainWrapper, ac(div, link));
div {
border: 3px solid black;
padding: 5px;
}
<div id="mainWrapper"></div>
Here is how to do specifically what you asked with more thoroughly notated code.
//get main wrapper
let mainWrapper = document.getElementById("mainWrapper");
//make a function to easily create elements
//function takes a tagName and an optional object for property values
//using Object.assign we can make tailored elements quickly.
function create(tagName, props) {
return Object.assign(document.createElement(tagName), (props || {}));
}
//document.appendChild is great except
//it doesn't offer easy stackability
//The reason for this is that it always returns the appended child element
//we create a function that appends from Parent to Child
//and returns the compiled element(The Parent).
//Since we are ALWAYS returning the parent(regardles of if the child is specified)
//we can recursively call this function to great effect
//(you'll see this further down)
function ac(p, c) {
if (c) p.appendChild(c);
return p;
}
//these are the elements you wanted to append
//notice how easy it is to make them!
//FYI when adding classes directly to an HTMLElement
//the property to assign a value to is className -- NOT class
//this is a common mistake, so no big deal!
var link = create("a", {
className: "scoreboard-video-outer-link",
url: "google.com"
});
var videoWrapper = create("div", {
className: "scoreboard-video-outer-link"
});
var videoThumbnailWrapper = create("div", {
className: "scoreboard-video--thumbnail"
});
var videoImage = create("img", {
src: "url-of-image-from-api"
});
//here's where the recursion comes in:
ac(mainWrapper, ac(link, ac(videoWrapper, ac(videoThumbnailWrapper, videoImage))));
//keep in mind that it might be easiest to read the ac functions backwards
//the logic is this:
//Append videoImage to videoThumbnailWrapper
//Append (videoImage+videoThumbnailWrapper) to videoWrapper
//Append (videoWrapper+videoImage+videoThumbnailWrapper) to link
//Append (link+videoWrapper+videoImage+videoThumbnailWrapper) to mainWrapper
let mainWrapper = document.getElementById('mainWrapper');
function create(tagName, props) {
return Object.assign(document.createElement(tagName), (props || {}));
}
function ac(p, c) {
if (c) p.appendChild(c);
return p;
}
var link = create("a", {
className: "scoreboard-video-outer-link",
url: "google.com"
});
var videoWrapper = create("div", {
className: "scoreboard-video-outer-link"
});
var videoThumbnailWrapper = create("div", {
className: "scoreboard-video--thumbnail"
});
var videoImage = create("img", {
src: "url-of-image-from-api"
});
ac(mainWrapper, ac(link, ac(videoWrapper, ac(videoThumbnailWrapper, videoImage))));
//pretty fancy.
//This is just to show the output in the log,
//feel free to just open up the developer console and look at the mainWrapper element.
console.dir(mainWrapper);
<div id="mainWrapper"></div>

Short version
Markup.js's loops.
Long version
You will find many solutions that work for this problem. But that may not be the point. The point is: is it right? And you may using the wrong tool for the problem.
I've worked with code that did similar things. I did not write it, but I had to work with it. You'll find that code like that quickly becomes very difficult to manage. You may think: "Oh, but I know what it's supposed to do. Once it's done, I won't change it."
Code falls into two categories:
Code you stop using and you therefore don't need to change.
Code you keep using and therefore that you will need to change.
So, "does it work?" is not the right question. There are many questions, but some of them are: "Will I be able to maintain this? Is it easy to read? If I change one part, does it only change the part I need to change or does it also change something else I don't mean to change?"
What I'm getting at here is that you should use a templating library. There are many for JavaScript.
In general, you should use a whole JavaScript application framework. There are three main ones nowadays:
ReactJS
Vue.js
Angular 2
For the sake of honesty, note I don't follow my own advice and still use Angular. (The original, not Angular 2.) But this is a steep learning curve. There are a lot of libraries that also include templating abilities.
But you've obviously got a whole project already set up and you want to just plug in a template into existing JavaScript code. You probably want a template language that does its thing and stays out of the way. When I started, I wanted that too. I used Markup.js . It's small, it's simple and it does what you want in this post.
https://github.com/adammark/Markup.js/
It's a first step. I think its loops feature are what you need. Start with that and work your way to a full framework in time.

Take a look at this - [underscore._template]
It is very tiny, and useful in this situation.
(https://www.npmjs.com/package/underscore.template).
const targetElement = document.querySelector('#target')
// Define your template
const template = UnderscoreTemplate(
'<a class="<%- link.className %>" href="<%- link.url %>">\
<div class="<%- wrapper.className %>">\
<div class="<%- thumbnail.className %>">\
<img src="<%- thumbnail.image %>">\
</div>\
<div class="<%- info.className %>">\
<div class="<%- info.title.className %>"><%- info.title.text %></div>\
</div>\
</div>\
</a>');
// Define values for template
const obj = {
link: {
className: 'scoreboard-video-outer-link',
url: '#someurl'
},
wrapper: {
className: 'scoreboard-video--wrapper'
},
thumbnail: {
className: 'scoreboard-video--thumbnail',
image: 'http://via.placeholder.com/350x150'
},
info: {
className: 'scoreboard-video--info',
title: {
className: 'scoreboard-video--title',
text: 'Pelicans # Bulls Postgame: E`Twaun Moore 10-8-17'
}
}
};
// Build template, and set innerHTML to output element.
targetElement.innerHTML = template(obj)
// And of course you can go into forEach loop here like
const arr = [obj, obj, obj]; // Create array from our object
arr.forEach(item => targetElement.innerHTML += template(item))
<script src="https://unpkg.com/underscore.template#0.1.7/dist/underscore.template.js"></script>
<div id="target">qq</div>