I am pretty new to React, I have worked on react native before, so I am quite familiar with a framework. Basically I have an array of objects, lets say in contains 5 items. I populated views based on the amount of objects, so if there are 5 objects, my map function would populate 5 together with 5 inputs. My question is how can I get a value of each input? Here is my code:
array.map(map((item, index) => (
<h1> item.title </h1>
<input value={input from user} />
)
You have to use the state and update the value with onChange manually
class App extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props)
this.state = {
value: ''
}
}
handleInputChange(e) {
this.setState({
[e.target.name]: e.target.value
});
}
render () {
return (
<div>
<input value={this.state.value} onChange={(e) => {this.handleInputChange(e)}} />
</div>
)
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'))
A quick solution would be to use an array for all the input values.
const Inputs = ({array}) => {
const [inputs, setInputs] = useState([]);
const setInputAtIndex = (value, index) => {
const nextInputs = [...inputs]; // this can be expensive
nextInputs.splice(index, 1, value);
setInputs(nextInputs);
}
return (
...
array.map((item, index) => (
<div key={index}>
<h1>{item.title}</h1>
<input
value={inputs[index]}
onChange={({target: {value}) => setInputAtIndex(value, index)}
/>
</div>
)
...
);
}
Keep in mind here that in this case every time an input is changed, the inputs state array is copied with [...inputs]. This is a performance issue if your array contains a lot of items.
