Passing Additional Arguments with map() in React

Question

I'm currently mapping over a prop like so:

  renderList(item) {
      return(
        </div>
          shows up
        </div>
    )
  }

  render() { 
    return(
        <div> 
          {this.props.items.map(this.renderList)}
        </div>
    );
  }
}

I have another prop I would like to pass

this.props.completed

A simplified version of what I would like to do

  renderList(item, completed) {
      return(
        </div>
          shows up
        </div>
    )
  }

  render() { 
    return(
        <div> 
          {this.props.items.map(this.renderList(this.props.items, this.props.completed)}
        </div>
    );
  }
}

Is it possible to pass another prop with this map function?

Can you give more context of what you are trying to do, its not clear for me. Can you add more code? — Ahmed Hawas, Aug 28 '16 at 00:23

ryanjduffy · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-28T12:58:58.083

There are (at least) 3 ways to go about this. The simplest is to bind renderList to your component instance and reference this.props.completed within it:

constructor (props) {
    super(props);
    // it's more efficient to bind your functions once in the constructor than
    // doing so on every render
    this.renderList = this.renderList.bind(this);
  }

  renderList(item) {
      const completed = this.props.completed;
      return(
        <div>
          shows up
        </div>
    )
  }

  render() { 
    return(
        <div> 
          {this.props.items.map(this.renderList)}
        </div>
    );
  }

Another option is to use a closure to pass the property into the function:

  renderList(completed, item) {
      return(
        <div>
          shows up
        </div>
    )
  }

  render() { 
    const completed = this.props.completed;
    const renderList = this.renderList;
    return(
        <div> 
          {this.props.items.map(function (item) {
             return renderList(completed, item);
          })}
        </div>
    );
  }

A third option would be to bind the property to the map() callback.

  renderList(completed, item) {
      return(
        <div>
          shows up
        </div>
    )
  }

  render() {
    return(
        <div> 
          {this.props.items.map(this.renderList.bind(this, this.props.completed))}
        </div>
    );
  }

Passing Additional Arguments with map() in React

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