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bourne2077

Reputation: 181

How to map over a JSON response in React

Hi I'm trying to learn how to use React with an API response. I have a GraphQL API endpoint that is returning information on products in JSON. I would like to loop over the response and render a react component for each product simply displaying the product name.

The JSON response looks like this:

{
  "data": {
    "products": [
      {
        "productName": "Pepsi",
        "price": "1.99",
      },
      {
        "productName": "Coke",
        "price": "2.99",
      },
      // and so on...
    ]
  }
}

I've successfully console logged each product name by doing the following (I'm using axios):

async function contactAPI() {
  return await axios({
    url: 'https://graphqlexample.com/api/products',
    method: 'post',
    data: {
      query: `
        QUERY GOES HERE
          `
    }
  })
}

async function goFetch() {
  let resp = await contactAPI();
  for (let entry in resp.data.data.products) {
    console.log(resp.data.data.products[entry]['productName']);
  }  
}

But now I would like to render a react component for each product, but I keep getting the error Objects are not valid as a React child (found: [object Promise]). Below is the code I'm using right now. How can I fix this so that I can return a react component for each product with the product name?

App.js

async function contactAPI() {
  return await axios({
    url: 'https://graphqlexample.com/api/products',
    method: 'post',
    data: {
      query: `
        QUERY GOES HERE
          `
    }
  })
}

async function App() {
  let resp = await contactAPI();
  return (
    <div>
      {resp.map(p => (
        <div>
          <ProductCard productName={p.productName} />
        </div>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
}

ProductCard.js

function ProductCard(props) {
  return (
    <div>
      <div>{props.productName}</div>      
    </div>
  );
}

Edit: Based on Andy's suggestion, I tried using states and useEffect, but I'm getting two errors. The first one is Error: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: [object Promise]). and the second one is Unhandled Rejection (Error): Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component. The second error points to const [products, setProducts] = useState([]);

This is my current code:

async function App() {
  const [products, setProducts] = useState([]);

  useEffect(() => {
    async function getData() {
      const res = await contactAPI();
      setProducts(res.data.data.products);
    }
    getData();
  }, []);

  return (
    <div>
      <div>
        {products.map(p => (
          <div>
            <ProductCard productName={p.productName} />
          </div>
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

Edit 2: Fixed by removing the async keyword from the original function App()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10901

Answers (2)

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 63587

Since you're using functional components you should implement hooks to 1) get the data, and 2) manage the component state. useEffect to get the data on first render, and useState to store and manage the data that's returned. You can then map over that data stored in the state to create the JSX.

const { useEffect, useState } = React;

function App() {

  // Initialise the state with an empty array
  const [products, setProducts] = useState([]);
  
  // Call `useEffect` with an empty dependency array
  // which will ensure it runs only once
  useEffect(() => {

    // Call the contactAPI function, wait for
    // the data and then update the state with the
    // product array
    async function getData() {
      const res = await contactAPI();
      setProducts(res.data.data.products);
    }
    getData();
  }, []);

  // If the state array is empty show a simple message
  if (!data.length) return <div>No data</div>;

  // Otherwise `map` over the state and produce the JSX
  return (
    <div>
      {products.map(product => (
        <div>
          <ProductCard productName={product.productName} />
        </div>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
}

Upvotes: 2

Cherry
Cherry

Reputation: 91

To display the JSON data in React i have used 2 methods. 1.You can make use of class component for fetch it as api. 2.You can import the JSON data file and simply map it.

This is my way of displaying JSON data on React applicatons.

Upvotes: 0

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