React Native Infinite Scroll

Question

I've tried to get a minimal example of infinite scroll. So I have this:

var React = require('react-native');

var {
    StyleSheet,
    View,
    Image,
    ListView,
    } = React;

var data = [
    {
        "id": 1,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 3,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 4,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 5,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 6,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    }

];

var InfiniteScreen = React.createClass({
    getInitialState: function () {
        return {
            isLoadingTail: false,
            dataSource: new ListView.DataSource({
                rowHasChanged: (row1, row2) => row1 !== row2,
            })
        };
    },
    componentDidMount: function () {
        this.setState({
            dataSource: this.getDataSource(data)
        });
    },
    renderRow: function (item) {
        return (
            <View>
                <Image style={{width: 80, height: 80}} source={{uri: 'http:' + item.profile_picture.href}}/>
            </View>
        );
    },
    onEndReached: function () {
        console.log('onEndReached', this.state.isLoadingTail);
        if (this.state.isLoadingTail) {
            // We're already fetching
            return;
        }
        this.setState({
            isLoadingTail: true
        });

        this.setState({
            isLoadingTail: false,
            dataSource: this.getDataSource(data)
        });
    },
    getDataSource: function (users):ListView.DataSource {
        return this.state.dataSource.cloneWithRows(users);
    },
    render: function () {
        return (
            <View>
                <ListView
                    dataSource={this.state.dataSource}
                    renderRow={this.renderRow}
                    onEndReached={this.onEndReached}
                />
            </View>);
    }
});

If I scroll to the very bottom, onEndReached() is fired, but the new data doesn't appear. Any ideas?

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '15 at 20:14

You always clone your data source with the same data, so nothing new appears. Here is a working example (add new data via concat):

var React = require('react-native');

var {
    StyleSheet,
    View,
    Image,
    ListView,
    } = React;

var data = [
    {
        "id": 1,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 3,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 4,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 5,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 6,
        "profile_picture": {
            "href": "//like1.r.worldssl.net/ui_big/1305634.jpg"
        }
    }

];

var InfiniteScreen = React.createClass({
    getInitialState: function () {
        return {
            isLoadingTail: false,
            dataSource: new ListView.DataSource({
                rowHasChanged: (row1, row2) => row1 !== row2,
            })
        };
    },
    componentDidMount: function () {
        this._data = [];
        this.setState({
            dataSource: this.getDataSource(data)
        });
    },
    renderRow: function (item) {
        return (
            <View>
                <Image style={{width: 80, height: 80}} source={{uri: 'http:' + item.profile_picture.href}}/>
            </View>
        );
    },
    onEndReached: function () {
        console.log('onEndReached', this.state.isLoadingTail);
        if (this.state.isLoadingTail) {
            // We're already fetching
            return;
        }
        this.setState({
            isLoadingTail: true
        });

        this.setState({
            isLoadingTail: false,
            dataSource: this.getDataSource(data)
        });
    },
    getDataSource: function (users):ListView.DataSource {
        this._data = this._data.concat(users);
        return this.state.dataSource.cloneWithRows(this._data);
    },
    render: function () {
        return (
            <View style={styles.container}>
                <ListView
                    dataSource={this.state.dataSource}
                    renderRow={this.renderRow}
                    onEndReached={this.onEndReached}
                />
            </View>);
    }
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
});

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '15 at 18:05

0

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-api.html#setstate

setState() does not immediately mutate this.state but creates a pending state transition. Accessing this.state after calling this method can potentially return the existing value. There is no guarantee of synchronous operation of calls to setState and calls may be batched for performance gains.

so the problems is here

    this.setState({
        isLoadingTail: true
    });

    this.setState({
        isLoadingTail: false,
        dataSource: this.getDataSource(data)
    });

answered May 15 '15 at 18:05

Liubomyr Mykhalchenko

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Answer by @vkurchatkin is better and it definitely solves the problem. But, anyway, code which I pointed at is broken. Component isn't going to re-render after each setState – Liubomyr Mykhalchenko May 15 '15 at 21:15
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how this can answer the question? – Afshin Mehrabani Feb 18 '17 at 16:16
It doesn't, I guess at that time I didn't have enough karma to post comments, so I posted an answer. – Liubomyr Mykhalchenko Feb 19 '17 at 16:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 28 '17 at 09:55

I've been looking for this solution for very long time. Finally I came up with this light weight library :-

https://www.npmjs.com/package/rn-infinite-scroll

import InfiniteListView from 'rn-infinite-scroll';

<InfiniteListView
    data ={this.state.items}
    renderRow={this.renderRow}
    canLoad={this.canLoad()}
    isLoading={this.state.isLoading}
    onLoad={this.onLoad}
/>

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 26 '19 at 14:03

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ListView is currently Deprecated. You will have to use FlatList or SectionList. You can find an example of infinite scroll using FlatList in this answer for another question. https://stackoverflow.com/a/47710224/7477198.

answered Feb 26 '19 at 14:03

Haseeb A

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