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Joe_Sky

How about this approach? github.com/leebyron/react-loops

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • Edited

Thanks, not seen that one!

On first scan, it's using a render function for items - which is fine, but I think it still has cognitive dissonance as you reason with the parameters of the render function and figure out the key on the item. I'm in JSX, I'm about to write some more JSX, I don't need this render function is my personal preference.

My full implementation of this allows for that approach (and multiple functional children if you like!) but if I look at the code where we use our function, it never actually happens. All we ever use is the item={<SomeRenderer/>} because it covers off all of our requirements and the code scans better.

Repeat with auto keying and debug fall back to JSON is 29 lines of code. I wouldn't make an npm package out of that :) I'd write a Dev article LOL!

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Joe_Sky

Oh, I basically understand, thanks for your detailed reply.

For the approach without render function, I also have seen this: github.com/AlexGilleran/jsx-contro...

But it has a trouble problem that in TS: the item needs to define a variable separately to match the TS type.

I feel that the approach of react-loops, which maybe has a higher recognition, because it uses the render props pattern commonly used in React. For example, solidjs also uses this <For> design: solidjs.com/docs/latest/api#%3Cfor%3E

After reading your article, I think it's certainly useful. I just feel that at first glance, there is a lot of code, which is a little complex for people who see it for the first time, perhaps it would be better to have a simplified version. Thanks for sharing~

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Mike Talbot ⭐

I mean, you would have the actual function in a utilities file and it's only a few lines of code. It works fine in TS. Here's an example of Repeat written that way.