react-repeat-component

Render any component/element N times, in ascending or descending order. The wrapper can be any component/element as well.

Heavily inspired by the Official React Docs section JSX In Depth - Functions as Children. 😁

Rationale

Let's say you just want to repeat 10 times an element, a custom component, whatever, but you don't have an Array to map() and render those elements. So, you end up doing something like:

import React from 'react';

class ProgressBar extends React.Component {
  render() {
    let steps = [];
    for (let i=0; i < 10; i++) {
      steps.push(<Step key={i} id={`step-${i}`}></Step>);
    }
    return(
      <div className="progress-bar">{steps}</div>
    );
  }
}

Not bad... Just a bit ugly isn't it? But then, you eventually end up repeating that pattern again and again, copy-pasting the same chunk of code. No worries, this dumb stateless component is here to help!

Examples

This is how to achieve the same result using the <Repeat> component.

import React from 'react';
import Repeat from 'react-repeat-component';

class ProgressBar extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return(
      <Repeat times={10} className="progress-bar">
      {(i) => <Step key={i} id={`step-${i}`}></Step>}
      </Repeat>
    );
  }
}

To change the order and/or the wrapper element, just use like this:

<Repeat times={10} order="desc" wrapper="p" className="repeater">
  {(i) => <span key={i}>{i + 1}</span>}
</Repeat>

And finally, take in mind that you can pass any other additional property you need for the wrapper (I used className just to illustrate that).

The API in a nutshell

Repeat.propTypes = {
  times   : PropTypes.number.isRequired,
  order   : PropTypes.oneOf(['asc', 'desc']).isRequired,
  wrapper : PropTypes.string.isRequired
};

Repeat.defaultProps = {
  order   : 'asc',
  wrapper : 'div'
};

Installation

npm i -S react-repeat-component 

yarn add react-repeat-component 

Contributing

Please, feel free to open any issue / pull request. 🙏

License

MIT.🚶️