I am trying to make a shopping app where if the cart is empty, it displays a div that says "shopping cart is empty." But I am getting a type error that says "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading length)."
I am passing down props to my Cart.js and am really stuck. Any suggestions?
import React from 'react';
// import 'semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css'
import { Routes, Route } from 'react-router-dom'
import { useState } from 'react';
import Nav from './components/Nav';
import NavTwo from './components/NavTwo';
import HotSandwiches from './pages/HotSandwiches';
import Home from './pages/Home';
import ColdSandwiches from './pages/ColdSandwiches';
import ChickenMeals from './pages/ChickenMeals';
import Chocolate from './pages/Chocolate';
import Drinks from './pages/Drinks';
import FruitSnacks from './pages/FruitSnacks';
import SaltySnacks from './pages/SaltySnacks';
import GumandMints from './pages/GumandMints';
import Toiletries from './pages/Toiletries';
import Cart from './components/Cart';
const App = () => {
const [cartItems, setCartItems] = useState([])
return (
<div>
<Nav />
<NavTwo />
<Routes>
<Route path='/' element={<Home />} />
<Route path='hotsandwiches' element={<HotSandwiches />} />
<Route path='coldsandwiches' element={<ColdSandwiches />} />
<Route path='chickenmeals' element={<ChickenMeals />} />
<Route path='chocolate' element={<Chocolate />} />
<Route path='drinks' element={<Drinks />} />
<Route path='fruitsnacks' element={<FruitSnacks />} />
<Route path='saltysnacks' element={<SaltySnacks />} />
<Route path='gumandmints' element={<GumandMints />} />
<Route path='toiletries' element={<Toiletries />} />
<Route path='cart' element={<Cart />} cartItems={cartItems} />
</Routes>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
import React from 'react';
const Cart = ( {cartItems} ) => {
return (
<div>
Cart items
<div>
{cart Items . length() === 0 ? <div> No items in cart </div> : <div> Hello </div>}
</div>
</div>
);
}
export default Cart;
In your main routes, you're declaring:
<Route path='cart' element={<Cart />} cartItems={cartItems} />
The <Route>
component doesn't pass its unused props to its children. You can specify it inside element
:
<Route path='cart' element={<Cart cartItems={cartItems} />} />
Also, not sure if this is a typo, but in your cart file it should be cartItems.length
instead of cart Items.length()
(there's no space in between and no ()
(function call; it's just an object property)).