How would i go about rendering a menu with nested <ul>
items with an an unknown amount of children in react from an object like in the following example?
[
{
title: "Top level 1",
slug: "top-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub level 1",
slug: "sub-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub Sub Level 1"
slug: "sub-sub-level-1"
}
]
}
{
title: "Sub level 2",
slug: "sub-level-2"
}
]
},
{
title: "Top level 2",
slug: "top-level 2"
}
]
Codesandbox example
You just have to recursively call Menu component for its children to display and pass as a data prop.
let data = [
{
title: "Top level 1",
slug: "top-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub level 1",
slug: "sub-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub Sub Level 1",
slug: "sub-sub-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub Sub Level 2",
slug: "sub-sub-level-2"
}
]
}
]
},
{
title: "Sub level 2",
slug: "sub-level-2"
}
]
},
{
title: "Top level 2",
slug: "top-level 2"
}
];
const Menu = ({data}) => {
return (
<ul>
{data.map(m => {
return (<li>
{m.title}
{m.children && <Menu data={m.children} />}
</li>);
})}
</ul>
);
}
const App = () => (
<div style={styles}>
<Hello name="CodeSandbox" />
<h2>Start editing to see some magic happen {'\u2728'}</h2>
<Menu data={data} />
</div>
);
You could recursively Render the component for nested data which has variable depth.
Sample Snippet.
var data = [
{
title: "Top level 1",
slug: "top-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub level 1",
slug: "sub-level-1",
children: [
{
title: "Sub Sub Level 1",
slug: "sub-sub-level-1"
}
]
},
{
title: "Sub level 2",
slug: "sub-level-2"
}
]
},
{
title: "Top level 2",
slug: "top-level 2"
}
]
const MyComponent = (props) => {
if(Array.isArray(props.collection)) {
return <ul>
{props.collection.map((data)=> {
return <li>
<ul>
<li>{data.title}</li>
<li>{data.slug}</li>
<li><MyComponent collection={data.children}/></li>
</ul>
</li>
})
}
</ul>
}
return null;
}
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<MyComponent collection={data}/>
)
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('app'))
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="app"></div>
P.S. The snippet contains formatting errors, but I am sure you will be able to rectify that. Snippet was to give an idea of the approach
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