I currently have a page with headers: h1, h2, h3. I want their text to be editable by a user onClick, so basically the header will turn into input type='text' then revert back to the header when user is done entering his values in the input. I have this functionality working quite well using the useReducer hook where i dispatch the corresponding values related to each one. However i'm struggling to figure out how to make the textIsEditing prop/boolean reusable across all 3 components. Let me explain a bit more with code:
JSON Data:
{
"name":"Click to rename One",
"campaigntype": "Click to rename Two",
"description": "Click to rename Three",
}
Component that holds the 3 headers:
export default function MetaData() {
const [nameIsEditing, setNameEditing] = useState(false);
const [campaignIsEditing, setCampaignIsEditing] = useState(false);
const [descriptionIsEditing, setDescriptionIsEditing] = useState(false);
function toggleNameEdit(){
setNameEditing(!nameIsEditing);
}
function toggleCampaignEdit(){
setCampaignIsEditing(!campaignIsEditing);
}
function toggleDescriptionEdit(){
setDescriptionIsEditing(!descriptionIsEditing);
}
const initialState = jsonData;
const [metaData, dispatch] = useReducer(metaDataReducer, initialState);
const handleChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
const defaultMetaValue = metaData[e.target.name as keyof MetaState];
dispatch({ type: e.target.name, value: e.target.value === '' ? defaultMetaValue : e.target.value });
};
return (
<Grid className='menuItem' container direction='column'>
{nameIsEditing ?
<RenameInput name='name' textStyle='h3' onClickAway={toggleNameEdit} onSubmit={toggleNameEdit} adName={metaData.name} onChange={handleChange} />
:
<H1 onClick={toggleNameEdit}>{metaData.name}</H1>}
{campaignIsEditing ?
<RenameInput name='campaigntype' textStyle='subtitle2' onClickAway={toggleCampaignEdit} onSubmit={toggleCampaignEdit} campaignType={metaData.campaigntype} onChange={handleChange} />
:
<H2 onClick={toggleCampaignEdit}>{metaData.campaigntype}</H2>}
{descriptionIsEditing ?
<RenameInput paragraph textStyle='body2' name='description' onClickAway={toggleDescriptionEdit} onSubmit={toggleDescriptionEdit} adDescription={metaData.description} onChange={handleChange} />
:
<H3 onClick={toggleDescriptionEdit} className='meta-description'>{metaData.description}</H3>}
</Grid>);
}
The reducer:
const metaDataReducer = (state: MetaState, action: ActionType) => {
if (action.type in state) {
return { ...state, [action.type]: action.value };
} else {
return state;
}
};
The RenameInput:
const RenameInput = (props) => {
return (
<ClickAwayListener onClickAway={props.onClickAway}>
<form onSubmit={props.onSubmit}>
<TextInput
defaultValue={props.adName || props.adDescription || props.campaignType}
autoFocus
onChange={props.onChange}
multiline={props.paragraph}
textStyle={props.textStyle}
name={props.name}
/>
</form>
</ClickAwayListener>
);
};
On my MetaData component, i really don't like this part of the code
const [nameIsEditing, setNameEditing] = useState(false);
const [campaignIsEditing, setCampaignIsEditing] = useState(false);
const [descriptionIsEditing, setDescriptionIsEditing] = useState(false);
function toggleNameEdit(){
setNameEditing(!nameIsEditing);
}
function toggleCampaignEdit(){
setCampaignIsEditing(!campaignIsEditing);
}
function toggleDescriptionEdit(){
setDescriptionIsEditing(!descriptionIsEditing);
}
I want to make this re-usable across all the 3 components as it's practically doing the same thing. I need one function that handles all 3 of these but i'm really unsure where or how to do this? Do i do this in the reducer, or how could i turn this into factory function? There must be a better way than the way i've done it with {nameIsEditing ? renameComponent : h1
{campaignIsEditing ? renameComponent : h2
{descriptionIsEditing ? renameComponent : h3