Looping through list two at a time using *ngFor

Question

I have a list of jobs that I want to display within <ion-row>. Each row can contain a maximum of two jobs. Each job is wrapped within a <ion-col> tag.

<ion-row>
    <ion-col width-50 class="job-item">Job A</ion-col>
    <ion-col width-50 class="job-item">Job B</ion-col>                              
</ion-row>  

I need to be able to loop through the jobs:

<ion-row>
    <ion-col *ngFor="let job of jobs" width-50 class="job-item">{{ job.name }}</ion-col>                            
</ion-row>  

But the problem with this is that all the jobs show within the same <ion-row> tag.

Instead I need something like this pseudo code:

<ion-row>
    <ion-col>1</ion-col>
    <ion-col>2</ion-col>
</ion-row>  
<ion-row>
    <ion-col>3</ion-col>
    <ion-col>4</ion-col>
</ion-row>  
<ion-row>
    <ion-col>5</ion-col>
    <ion-col>6</ion-col>
</ion-row>  
<ion-row>
    <ion-col>7</ion-col>
</ion-row>      

How can I achieve this? Presumably making use of odd/even numbers?

Answer 1

create a pipe that does the split:

@Pipe({ name: "row" })
export class RowPipe implements PipeTransform {
  // input is an array of any
  // mod is the modulo, every mod items, create a row
  transform(input: any[], mod: number): any[][] {
    return input.reduce((previous, next, index) => {
      if (index % mod === 0)
        previous.push([next]);
      else
        previous[previous.length - 1].push(next);
      return previous;
    }, <any[][]>[]);
  }
}

then :

<ion-row *ngFor="row of jobs|row:2">
    <ion-col *ngFor="let job of row" width-50 class="job-item">{{ job.name }}</ion-col>                            
</ion-row>  

Answer 2

The best way to do this is by transforming the structure of your jobs array so that it is an array of arrays. Then the structure you want is easy:

<ion-row *ngFor='let row of jobRows'>
    <ion-col *ngFor="let job of row">{{ job.name }}</ion-col>                            
</ion-row>

Where you do the transformation is mostly dependent on your app, but you could do it in a pipe:

@Pipe({
    name: 'toRows'
})
export class ToRowsPipe implements PipeTransform {

    transform<T>(value: T[], perRow: number): T[][] {
        let rows: T[][] = [];
        for (let i = 0; i < value.length; i += perRow) {
            rows.push(value.slice(i, i + perRow))
        }
        return rows;
    }

}



<ion-row *ngFor='let row of jobs | toRows:2'>
    <ion-col *ngFor="let job of row">{{ job.name }}</ion-col>                            
</ion-row>

Answer 3

The simplest solution is to apply *ngFor on and give the size attribute as necessary. In your case, it would be 6 since the total is 12. So that creates rows of 2 columns each.

<ion-row>
 <ion-col *ngFor="let job of jobs" size="6">
  {{ job.name }}
 </ion-col>                            
</ion-row>