How to display data to table in React Js?

Question

I'm trying to display some data received through API to table in React Js, data is received as object so I can't map trough it. What would be the best practice in this situation? For now the data is hardcoded, but it needs to be dynamic.

My code in CodeSandbox

export default function App() {

  const data ={
    
    "people" :[
      {
        "name":"John",
        "last_name":"Doe",
        "age":"25",
        "Occupation":"driver",
      },
      {
        "name":"Jack",
        "last_name":"Brown",
        "age":"24",
        "Occupation":"it"
      },
      {
        "name":"Oliver",
        "last_name":"Black",

        "age":"30",
        "Occupation":"cto"
      },
    ],

    "format":{"last_name":"Last Name"}
  }
  
  return (
    <div className="App">
     <table>
       <tbody>
         <tr>
           <td>Name</td>
           <td>John</td>
           <td>Jack</td>
           <td>Oliver</td>
           
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Last Name</td>
           <td>Doe</td>
           <td>Brown</td>
           <td>Black</td>
           
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Age</td>
           <td>25</td>
           <td>24</td>
           <td>30</td>
           
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Occupation</td>
           <td>driver</td>
           <td>it</td>
           <td>ceo</td>
         </tr>

         
       </tbody>
     </table>
    </div>
  );
}

needs to be displayed as

Name         John     Jack      Oliver
Last Name    Doe      Brown     Black
Age          25       24        30
Occupation   driver   it        ceo

I can't figure out how to display the data dynamically ( and also add data from format part. I would appreciate any suggestion and help, thank you.

Answer 1

My approach is somewhat unorthodox, but may still be of interest to you. I would actually render your data like so first:

Name    Last Name   Age Occupation
John    Doe         25  driver
Jack    Brown       24  it
Oliver  Black       30  cto

And then simply use CSS to transpose it, which will give it the look you want:

Name         John     Jack      Oliver
Last Name    Doe      Brown     Black
Age          25       24        30
Occupation   driver   it        ceo

So, the render part is super easy:

    <tbody>
          <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Last Name</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Occupation</th>
          </tr>
          {data.people.map((item, i) => (
            <tr key={i}>
              <td>{item.name}</td>
              <td>{item.last_name}</td>
              <td>{item.age}</td>
              <td>{item.Occupation}</td>
            </tr>
          ))}
    </tbody>

So is the CSS part:

tr {
  display: block;
  float: left;
}
th,td {
  display: block;
  text-align: left;
  padding: 6px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

That's it. Oh, here is the sandbox.

Answer 2

The root problem is, normalize your data from flat data into dynamic/aggregated data by horizontal key & values as the following structure

[
  {
    "Name": [
      "John",
      "Jack",
      "Oliver"
    ]
  },
  {
    "Last Name": [
      "Doe",
      "Brown",
      "Black"
    ]
  },
  {
    "Age": [
      "25",
      "24",
      "30"
    ]
  },
  {
    "Occupation": [
      "driver",
      "it",
      "cto"
    ]
  }
]

const data ={
    "people" :[
      {
        "name":"John",
        "last_name":"Doe",
        "age":"25",
        "Occupation":"driver",
      },
      {
        "name":"Jack",
        "last_name":"Brown",
        "age":"24",
        "Occupation":"it"
      },
      {
        "name":"Oliver",
        "last_name":"Black",

        "age":"30",
        "Occupation":"cto"
      },
    ],

    "format":{"last_name":"Last Name"}
  };
var items  = Object.values(data)[0];

var createOrEdit = (acc, key, value) => {
    var findItem = acc.find(r => r[key] !== undefined);
    if(findItem == undefined)
      acc.push({[key]: [value]});
    else
      findItem[key].push(value);
    
    return acc;
}

var result = items.reduce((acc, curr) => {
    createOrEdit(acc, 'Name', curr.name);
    createOrEdit(acc, 'Last Name', curr.last_name);
    createOrEdit(acc, 'Age', curr.age);    
    createOrEdit(acc, 'Occupation', curr.Occupation);
    
    return acc;
}, [])

console.log(result);
  
for(let item of result){
  console.log(Object.keys(item)[0]);
  console.log(Object.values(item)[0]);
}

After that, you can easily render data based on normalized data like below

const nomorlizeData = (data) => {
  var items = Object.values(data)[0];

  var createOrEdit = (acc, key, value) => {
    var findItem = acc.find((r) => r[key] !== undefined);
    if (findItem === undefined) acc.push({ [key]: [value] });
    else findItem[key].push(value);

    return acc;
  };

  var result = items.reduce((acc, curr) => {
    createOrEdit(acc, "Name", curr.name);
    createOrEdit(acc, "Last Name", curr.last_name);
    createOrEdit(acc, "Age", curr.age);
    createOrEdit(acc, "Occupation", curr.Occupation);

    return acc;
  }, []);

  return result;
};

function App() {
  const data = {
    people: [
      {
        name: "John",
        last_name: "Doe",
        age: "25",
        Occupation: "driver"
      },
      {
        name: "Jack",
        last_name: "Brown",
        age: "24",
        Occupation: "it"
      },
      {
        name: "Oliver",
        last_name: "Black",

        age: "30",
        Occupation: "cto"
      }
    ],

    format: { last_name: "Last Name" }
  };

  var renderData = (items) =>
    items.map((r) => {
      var key = <td>{Object.keys(r)[0]}</td>;
      var values = Object.values(r)[0].map((v) => <td>{v}</td>);
      return (
        <tr>
          {key}
          {values}
        </tr>
      );
    });
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <table>
        <tbody>{renderData(nomorlizeData(data))}</tbody>
      </table>
    </div>
  );
}



ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

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