The titel says it all. A colluege wanted to know how to write a Recursive React component in Typescript. So i wrote a simple one with infinite depth.
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import React, { useState } from "react"; | |
type ItemType = { | |
id: Number; | |
title: String; | |
children: Array<Number>; | |
}; | |
// Each "ItemType" element in the array have a array of children ID's. These refer | |
// to a ItemType. | |
// = This has a infinite depth. | |
const items: ItemType[] = [ | |
{ id: 1, title: "Item 1", children: [2, 3, 4] }, | |
{ id: 2, title: "Item 2", children: [1, 3, 4] }, | |
{ id: 3, title: "Item 3", children: [1, 2, 4] }, | |
{ id: 4, title: "Item 3", children: [1, 2, 3] } | |
]; | |
function Item({ title, children }: ItemType): JSX.Element { | |
const [open, toggle] = useState(false); | |
// Given the children array with IDs, find each Item we refer to | |
const childElements = children.map(findChild) as ItemType[]; | |
return ( | |
<div> | |
<h6> | |
{title} children <button onClick={() => toggle(!open)}>Open</button> | |
</h6> | |
<ul> | |
{/* Loop children and run recursive */} | |
{open && | |
childElements.map((child: ItemType) => ( | |
<li> | |
<div>Child: {child.title}</div> | |
<Item {...child} /> | |
</li> | |
))} | |
</ul> | |
</div> | |
); | |
} | |
function App() { | |
return ( | |
<div> | |
{/* Start by iterating over all items */} | |
{items.map(item => ( | |
<Item {...item} /> | |
))} | |
</div> | |
); | |
} | |
// Function to find a Item by child id. | |
function findChild(childId: Number): ItemType | undefined { | |
return items.find(({ id }) => id === childId); | |
} | |
export default App; |
Might be usefull for someone.
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