Wait for API call data before render react hooks

Question

I make an API call.

It appears React goes ahead to build a table without the data, thus throwing error of

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of undefined

Here's what I'm doing

useEffect() pretty straightforward

  const [data, setData] = useState();
  const [isBusy, setBusy] = useState()

  useEffect(() => {
    setBusy(true);
    async function fetchData() {
      const url = `${
        process.env.REACT_APP_API_BASE
        }/api/v1/endpoint/`;

      axios.get(url).then((response: any) => {
        setBusy(false);
        setData(response.data.results)
        console.log(response.data.results);
      });
    }

    fetchData();
  }, [])

Then I'm trying to render a table using the data from the API call above (as and when it becomes available)

            <div className="col-md-12 mt-5">
              {isBusy ? (
                <Loader />
              ) : (
                  <table className="table table-hover">
                    <thead>
                      <tr>
                        <th scope="col">Pharmacy User Full Name</th>
                        <th scope="col">Tests This Month</th>
                        <th scope="col">Tests This Week</th>
                        <th scope="col">Last Test Date</th>
                      </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody>
                      {data.map((item: any, index: any) => {
                        return (<tr>
                          <th scope="row" key={index}>{item.name}</th>
                          <td>Mark</td>
                          <td>Otto</td>
                          <td>@mdo</td>
                        </tr>
                        )
                      })}

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

The above appears intuitive enough for me. So not sure what I need to do. Thanks.

Answer 1

You should set isBusy to true in the useState initial value

//                            initial value
const [isBusy, setBusy] = useState(true)

And also check data before data.map

// checking data
{data && data.map((item: any, index: any) => {
    return (<tr>
      <th scope="row" key={index}>{item.name}</th>
      <td>Mark</td>
      <td>Otto</td>
      <td>@mdo</td>
    </tr>
    )
})}