ReactJS acquiring JSON data

Question

You can find my JSON data on this link. What I am having trouble doing is acquiring article data from React.

My code is below. I did not include the JSON get request code in my question as it's not entirely consequential. I used the jQuery $.getJSON method to replace the state of fulldata with the array. So assume that the data is fully there under fulldata.

getInitialState:function(){
    return { fulldata: {forthem:[ {articles: [] } ]}  }
},

viewer:function(){
    return (<ul>
            {this.state.fulldata.forthem[0].articles.map(function(makeit, o){
                return <li key={o}>{makeit.article}</li>})}
            </ul>)
},

What this existing code allows me to do is acquire the first set of articles under emjayweb. However, if I modify the code to this.state.fulldata.forthem[1] I cannot get the second set of articles under cnn. I get a Cannot read property map of undefined error.

Answer 1

Try this one... so instead of using an external loop for getting the data, we use array's map and reduce function.

    const articles = data.forthem.map(item =>
        item.articles.map(article => article)
    ).reduce((list, current) =>
        list.concat(current)
    );

Working example below...

const data = {
    "forthem": [
        {
            "therefore": "emjayweb",
            "theresym": "emj",
            "articles": [
                {
                    "number": "1",
                    "article": "How to Strengthen Your Password",
                    "url": "",
                    "pubdate": ""
                }, {
                    "number": "2",
                    "article": "Second Article",
                    "url": "",
                    "pubdate": ""
                }
            ]
        }, {
            "therefore": "CNN",
            "theresym": "cnn",
            "articles": [
                {
                    "number": "3",
                    "article": "Work It",
                    "url": "",
                    "pubdate": ""
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
};

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return <div>
            <h2>Articles</h2>
            <ul>
                {this.props.articles.map(item => <li key={item.number}>{item.article}</li>)}
            </ul>
        </div>
    }
}

class App extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            articles: []
        }
    }

    componentWillMount() {
        const articles = data.forthem.map(item =>
            item.articles.map(article => article)
        ).reduce((list, current) =>
            list.concat(current)
        );

        this.setState({ articles });
    }

    render() {
        return <div>
            <h1>React Demo</h1>
            <MyComponent articles={this.state.articles}/>
        </div>
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('root'));

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="root"></div>