Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React - Second Edition

Handling lists with React

For list handling, we introduce a new JavaScript method, map(), which is handy when you have to manipulate a list. The map() method creates a new array containing the results of calling a function to each element in the original array. In the following example, each array element is multiplied by two:

const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];const resArr = arr.map(x => x * 2); // resArr = [2, 4, 6, 8]

The map() method also has the index second argument, which is useful when handling lists in React. The list items in React need a unique key that is used to detect rows that have been changed, added, or deleted.

The following example shows components that transform the array of integers to the array of list items and render these in ...