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Discussion on: What is the standard way to keep UI state and backend state synced during updates? (React and Node)

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JesseAyegba

Amazing insight. The only problem I have with storing data in an object is the inability to loop through the items in that object. Using methods like "map" becomes practically impossible for a react developer.

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Owen Conti 🇨🇦

You can get around the loop issue by converting the object to an array before/during render:

Object.values(state.items).map(item => ...)
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james-julius • Edited

How about writing a custom function? I think something like this would work and would create a nice mini-optimisation to use objects as you're suggesting!

function mapObject(obj, callback) {
for (let [idx, val] in obj.entries()) {
callback(val, idx);
}
}