I have a simple React app. On the 'home' page you can search movies from an API and add a movie to a list of favorited. I'm using Context to store which movies are on the list and pass it to the 'favorites' page where those items are rendered. It works well up to a point.
Once on the 'favorites' page, when I remove a movie, I would like the page to then show the updated elements. Instead, I have the elements I already had there plus the elements from the updated list.
So let's say my favorited movies were 'spiderman', 'batman' and 'dracula'. when I remove 'dracula' from the list, I suddenly have the cards of 'spiderman', 'batman, 'dracula', 'spiderman'(again) and 'batman'(again).
When I reload the 'favorites' page, it all works as intended. I just would like for it to be updated correctly upon removing the movie.
Any advice?
Here is the code for the Home page, Favorite page, DataContext and the Card component
import React, { createContext, useState, useEffect } from "react";
export const DataContext = createContext();
function DataContextProvider({ children }) {
const [favorited, setFavorited] = useState([]);
useEffect(() => {
const savedMovies = localStorage.getItem("movies");
if (savedMovies) {
setFavorited(JSON.parse(savedMovies));
}
}, []);
useEffect(() => {
localStorage.setItem("movies", JSON.stringify(favorited));
}, [favorited]);
function addToFavorites(id) {
setFavorited((prev) => [...prev, id]);
}
function removeFromFavorited(id) {
const filtered = favorited.filter(el => el != id)
setFavorited(filtered)
}
return (
<DataContext.Provider value={{ favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited}}>
{children}
</DataContext.Provider>
);
}
export default DataContextProvider;
function Favorites(props) {
const ctx = useContext(DataContext);
const [favoriteMovies, setFavoriteMovies] = useState([]);
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`
)
.then((res) => {
setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]);
});
}
}, [ctx.favorited]);
return (
<>
<Navbar />
<main>
<div className="favorites-container">
{favoriteMovies.map((movie) => {
return <Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />;
})}
</div>
</main>
</>
);
}
function Home(props) {
const [moviesData, setMoviesData] = useState([]);
const [numOfMovies, setNumOfMovies] = useState(10);
const [search, setSearch] = useState(getDayOfWeek());
const [spinner, setSpinner] = useState(true);
const [goodToBad, setGoodToBad] = useState(null);
function getDayOfWeek() {
const date = new Date().getDay();
let day = "";
switch (date) {
case 0:
day = "Sunday";
break;
case 1:
day = "Monday";
break;
case 2:
day = "Tuesday";
break;
case 3:
day = "Wednesday";
break;
case 4:
day = "Thursday";
break;
case 5:
day = "Friday";
break;
case 6:
day = "Saturday";
break;
}
return day;
}
function bestToWorst() {
setGoodToBad(true);
}
function worstToBest() {
setGoodToBad(false);
}
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=${key}&query=${search}`
)
.then((res) => {
setMoviesData(res.data.results);
//console.log(res.data.results)
setSpinner(false);
setGoodToBad(null);
});
}, [search]);
return (
<>
<Navbar />
<main>
<form>
<input
type="text"
placeholder="Search here"
id="search-input"
onChange={(e) => {
setSearch(e.target.value);
setNumOfMovies(10);
}}
/>
{/* <input type="submit" value="Search" /> */}
</form>
<div className="sorting-btns">
<button id="top" onClick={bestToWorst}>
<BsArrowUp />
</button>
<button id="bottom" onClick={worstToBest}>
<BsArrowDown />
</button>
</div>
{spinner ? <Loader /> : ""}
<div>
<div className="results">
{!moviesData.length && <p>No results found</p>}
{moviesData
.slice(0, numOfMovies)
.sort((a,b) => {
if(goodToBad) {
return b.vote_average - a.vote_average
} else if (goodToBad === false){
return a.vote_average - b.vote_average
}
})
.map((movie) => (
<Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />
))}
</div>
</div>
{numOfMovies < moviesData.length && (
<button className="more-btn" onClick={() => setNumOfMovies((prevNum) => prevNum + 6)}>
Show More
</button>
)}
</main>
</>
);
}
export default Home;
function Card(props) {
const ctx = useContext(DataContext);
return (
<div
className={
ctx.favorited.includes(props.movie.id)
? "favorited movie-card"
: "movie-card"
}
>
<div className="movie-img">
<img
alt="movie poster"
src={
props.movie.poster_path
? `https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200/${props.movie.poster_path}`
: "./generic-title.png"
}
/>
</div>
<h2>{props.movie.original_title}</h2>
<p>{props.movie.vote_average}/10</p>
<button
className="add-btn"
onClick={() => ctx.addToFavorites(props.movie.id)}
>
Add
</button>
<button
className="remove-btn"
onClick={() => ctx.removeFromFavorited(props.movie.id)}
>
Remove
</button>
</div>
);
}
export default Card;
As mentioned before a lot of things cold be improved (you might want to check some react tutorial beginners related to best practices).
Anyway the main issue your app seems to be your callback after you get the response from the API (so this part):
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
axios
.get(
`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`
)
.then((res) => {
setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]);
});
}
here you are calling setFavoriteMovies((prev) => [...prev, res.data]); but you actually never reset your favoriteMovies list.
So in your example favoriteMovies is ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula']. Then the useEffect callback executes with the array unchanged.
So you are making the requests just for 'spiderman' and 'batman' but your favoriteMovies array is ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula'] when the callback is entered (and this is why you end up appending those values to the existing ones and in the end your favoriteMovies == ['spiderman', 'batman', 'dracula', 'spiderman', 'batman'] in your example).
How to fix?
Quick fix would that might be obvious would be to reset the favoriteMovies at the beggining of useEffect. But that would be a extremly bad ideea since setting the state many times is terrible for performance reasons (each setState callback triggers a re-render) as well as for redability. So please don't consider this.
What I would suggest though would be to get all the values in the useEffect callback, put all the new favorite movies data in a variable and at the end of the function change the state in one call with the full updated list.
There are multiple ways to achieve this (async await is the best imo), but trying to alter the code as little as possible something like this should also work:
useEffect(() => {
const key = process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY;
const savedMovies = ctx.favorited;
const favoriteMoviesPromises = [];
for (let i = 0; i < savedMovies.length; i++) {
favoriteMoviesPromises.push(
axios
.get(`https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${savedMovies[i]}?api_key=${key}&language=en-US`)
.then((res) => res.data)
);
}
Promise.all(favoriteMoviesPromises).then((newFavoriteMovies) =>
setFavoriteMovies(newFavoriteMovies)
);
});
Please note I wasn't able to test this code since I don't have an exact reproduction of the error (so it might need some small adjustments). This code sample is rather a direction for your problem :)
Edit regarding the comment:
Despite the state issue, I would really recommend working on code cleanliness, efficiency and readability.
Examples (I put a few examples in code snippets to avoid a really long comment):
1. `function getDayOfWeek`:
First thing is that you don't need the `day` variable and all the break statement.
You could just return the value on the spot (this would also stop the execution of the function).
So instead of
case 0:
day = "Sunday";
break;
you could have
case 0:
return "Sunday";
Going even further you don't need a switch case at all. You could just create an array
`const daysOfWeek = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', "Saturday"]`
and just return daysOfWeek[date].
This would result in shorter and easier to read code.
2. Also this code is not really consistent. For example you have
onChange={(e) => {
setSearch(e.target.value);
setNumOfMovies(10);
}}
but also `onClick={bestToWorst}` which is just `function bestToWorst() { setGoodToBad(true) }`.
If this is not reusable you could just use `onClick={() => setGoodToBad(true)}`.
But even if you really want to keep the bestToWorst callback for whatever reason you could at least write and inline function
(something like `const bestToWorst = () => setGoodToBad(true)` and use it the same).
Anyway... From thoose 2 cases (bestToWorst and `Search here` onChange function),
the second one make more sense to be defined outside.
3. The next part is really hard to read and maintain:
{!moviesData.length && <p>No results found</p>}
{moviesData
.slice(0, numOfMovies)
.sort((a,b) => {
if(goodToBad) {
return b.vote_average - a.vote_average
} else if (goodToBad === false){
return a.vote_average - b.vote_average
}
})
.map((movie) => (
<Card key={movie.id} movie={movie} />
))}
Also this code doesn't belong in html.
You should at least put the slice and sort parts in a function.
Going further `if(goodToBad)` and `else if (goodToBad === false)` are also not ideal.
It would be best to use a separate function an example would be something like:
const getFormattedMoviesData = () => {
let formattedMoviesData = moviesData.slice(0, numOfMovies)
if(!goodToBad && goodToBad !== false) return formattedMoviesData;
const getMoviesDifference = (m1, m2) => m1.vote_average - m2.vote_average
return formattedMoviesData.sort((a,b) => goodToBad ? getMoviesDIfference(b,a) : getMoviesDIfference(a,b)
4. DataContext name doesn't suggest anything.
I would propose something more meaningfull (especially for contexts) like `FavoriteMoviesContext`.
In this way people can get an ideea of what it represents when they come across it in the code.
Additionally the context only contains `favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited`.
So rather than using
`const ctx = useContext(DataContext);`
you could just use
`const {favorited, addToFavorites, removeFromFavorited} = useContext(DataContext);`
and get rid of the ctx variable in your code
Regarding the api:
If the search api returns all the movie data you need you can take it from there and use it in the favorites.
Alternatively it would be great to have an endpoint to return a list of multiple movies
(so send an array of id's in the request and receive all of them).
But this is only possible if the backend supports it.
But otherwise, since the api might contain hundreds of thousands or even millions, having them all stored on the frontside state would be an overkill
(you can in some cases have this type lists stored in a redux state or a react context and filter them on frontend side.
But it won't be efficient for such a big volume of data).
Small conclusion: ignoring the state part there aren't big issues in the code (and for a personal project or for learning might be decent). But if someone else has to work on in or you have to come back on this code after a month might become a nightmare. (especially since it seems like the codebase is not very small)
And people trying to understand your code might find it hard as well (including when you are posting it on stack overflow). I highlighted just a few, but it should point in the right direction, I hope.
First of all, you should review the way you manage the favorite movies and that of what you want to do with them in your app. If you need to make a page to display the list of favorites, I would rather save in localstorage the necessary information for the list (cover, title, year, id, etc) without having to save the whole movie object. This will prevent you from having to call the API for each movie which will be very bad in terms of performance on your application. Also, it will prevent you from having to create another state on the Favorites page so it will solve your problem automatically (I think your problem came from the duplicate state you have).
I am calling components as folloews
{userAddresses.map((useraddress, index) => {
return (
<div key={index}>
<Address useraddress={useraddress} />
</div>
);
})}
Their state:
const [showEditAddress, setShowEditAddress] = useState(false);
and this is how I am handling their states
const switchEditAddress = () => {
if (showEditAddress === false) {
setShowEditAddress(true);
} else {
setShowEditAddress(false);
}
};
Well, it's better if you want to toggle between true and false to use the state inside useEffect hook in react.
useEffect will render the component every time and will get into your condition to set the state true or false.
In your case, you can try the following:
useEffect(() => { if (showEditAddress === false) {
setShowEditAddress(true);
} else {
setShowEditAddress(false);
} }, [showEditAddress])
By using useEffect you will be able to reset the boolean as your condition.
Also find the link below to react more about useEffect.
https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-effect.html
It would be best in my opinion to keep your point of truth in the parent component and you need to figure out what the point of truth should be. If you only want one component to be editing at a time then I would just identify the address you want to edit in the parent component and go from there. It would be best if you gave each address a unique id but you can use the index as well. You could do something like the following:
UserAddress Component
const UserAddress = ({index, editIndex, setEditIndex, userAddress}) => {
return(
<div>
{userAddress}
<button onClick={() => setEditIndex(index)}>Edit</button>
{editIndex === index && <div style={{color: 'green'}}>Your editing {userAddress}</div>}
</div>
)
}
Parent Component
const UserAddresses = () => {
const addresses = ['120 n 10th st', '650 s 41 st', '4456 Birch ave']
const [editIndex, setEditIndex] = useState(null)
return userAddresses.map((userAddress, index) => <UserAddress key={index} index={index} editIndex={editIndex} setEditIndex={setEditIndex} userAddress={userAddress}/>;
}
Since you didn't post the actual components I can only give you example components but this should give you an idea of how to achieve what you want.
I'm still unexperienced with react so that even after searching for a solution and finding some pointers I still cant grasp what the problem is or how to solve it.
I have a Component that renders a list of images. It also contains a search input. I copy the search input onChanged to the state. If onKeyPressed is the return key or when the search button is pressed, that text is again copied from state to the state.searchTerm. The search itself is an effect that watches for changes in searchTerm an then executes a search, updating the list of images. However I feel like, because I change the state with every onChange in the search input, I trigger a re-render of the entire component including the list of images which is just annoying. How can I get rid of this?
I tried to shrink my styled and dynamic code to a minimal working version. What would be the best way to solve this? Would it help to split list and search into separate components with individual state with the parent just holding the list of assets, passing it to the list child and the search child getting a reference to onSearch?
But then I just move the problem since if the search child re-renders, the parent will as well, right?
function AssetListTool ({}) {
const [assets, setAssets] = useState([]);
const [searchTerm, setSearchTerm] = useState('');
const [searchText, setSearchText] = useState('');
const params = {
limit: 30,
sort: 'title:desc',
searchTerm
};
const Asset = memo(function ({asset }) {
return <>
<div className="asset">
<img src={asset.thumbnail} />
</div>
</>;
});
useEffect(() => {
const matchingAssets = assetApi.getAllAssets({...params });
Promise.all([matchingAssets],
).then(responses => {
setAssets(assets.concat(responses[0].items));
});
}, [searchTerm]);
const onSearchTextChanged = useCallback((event) => {
setSearchText(event.target.value);
}, [searchText]);
function onSearchKeyPressed(event) {
if (event.key === 'Enter') {
onSearch();
}
}
function onSearch() {
setAssets([]);
setSearchTerm(searchText);
}
return (
<>
<div>
<div>
<input onChange={onSearchTextChanged} onKeyPress={onSearchKeyPressed} value={searchText}
type="text"/>
</div>
<div>
<button onClick={onSearch}>
<Icon icon={faSearch}/>
</button>
</div>
</div>
<div>
{assets && assets.length > 0 &&
<div>
{assets.map((asset) => <Asset asset={asset}/>)}
</div>
}
</div>
</>
);
}
export default AssetListTool;
Ah, should've searched just a little more and I was on the right track... The solution is to not touch the state for the text input and instead use a reference to it which is then read for the search as was explained here:
Getting input values without rerender
Thought about a local variable but that didnt work and using event.target.value was always missing the last input. So ref is the trick here..
I'd like to open a materialui dialog and handle the result from javascript to make a simple Yes/no prompt.
Id like it to work something like this (just mockup code to explain)
<MyPromptComponent />
{
MyPromptComponent.show('Do you really want to?').then((result) => alert(result ? 'then do it' : 'walk away') );
}
So the question is; How (if) can I put functions in my component, that I can call from a reference?
If someone knows of an example where something similar is dont I'd appreciate it.
Edit : 11/10/2020
The "problem" with the state way of doing this is that I have to leave the function showing the prompt, having to store temporary variables outside the function. If I could do something like this the code would be much more readable:
{
let tempData = doAProcessForThisFunctionOnly();
let sureResult = confirmDialog.show('Are you sure?');
if(sureResult )
doSomeMoreWithTempData(tempData);
else
doSomeOtherStuff(tempData);
doSomeEndStuff(tempdata);
}
In react I have to do this
{
let tempData = doAProcessForThisFunctionOnly();
tempDataRef.current = tempData;
setShowDialog();
}
onYes = () => {
let workData = tempDataRef.current;
doSomeMoreWithTempData(workData );
doSomeEndStuff(workData)
}
onNo = () => {
let workData = tempDataRef.current;
doSomeOtherStuff(workData );
doSomeEndStuff(workData)
}
doSomeEndStuff = (workData) => {
//Do the stuff here
}
It really seems I need to jump in and out of a lot of functions just to get a simple confirmation and even using variables outside the functon (refs).
That really seems a big step backwards code-wise, to me.
The "vanilla" way of doing this would even let me use the same prompt-dialog component from many different functions. In reactit seems I need a separate confirm-dialog for each case as the "yes"/"no" events are hardcoded per case.
You should control everything with state:
export default function App() {
const [show, setShow] = useState(false);
return (
<div className="App">
<button onClick={() => setShow(true)}>Initiate</button>
<MyPromptComponent
title="Do you really want to?"
show={show}
onConfirm={() => {
setShow(false);
alert("Then do it")
}}
onCancel={() => {
setShow(false);
alert("Walk away")
}}
/>
</div>
);
}
const MyPromptComponent = ({ show, title, onConfirm, onCancel }) => {
return (
<React.Fragment>
{show &&
<div>
Lets pretend this is modal - {title}
<button onClick={() => onConfirm()}>Confirm</button>
<button onClick={() => onCancel()}>Cancel</button>
</div>
}
</React.Fragment>
);
};
Please see sandbox
In my application I have a list of "chips" (per material-ui), and on clicking the delete button a delete action should be taken. The action needs to be given a reference to the chip not the button.
A naive (and wrong) implementation would look like:
function MemberList(props) {
const {userList} = this.props;
refs = {}
for (const usr.id of userList) {
refs[usr.id] = React.useRef();
}
return <>
<div >
{
userList.map(usr => {
return <UserThumbView
ref={refs[usr.id]}
key={usr.id}
user={usr}
handleDelete={(e) => {
onRemove(usr, refs[usr.id])
}}
/>
}) :
}
</div>
</>
}
However as said this is wrong, since react expects all hooks to always in the same order, and (hence) always be of the same amount. (above would actually work, until we add a state/any other hook below the for loop).
How would this be solved? Or is this the limit of functional components?
Refs are just a way to save a reference between renders. Just remember to check if it is defined before you use it. See the example code below.
function MemberList(props) {
const refs = React.useRef({});
return (
<div>
{props.userList.map(user => (
<UserThumbView
handleDelete={(e) => onRemove(user, refs[user.id])}
ref={el => refs.current[user.id] = el}
key={user.id}
user={user}
/>
})}
</div>
)
}