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How do I implement conditional rendering in a functional React component?

I want to implement conditional rendering in a functional React component. I don't know how to do this in a function.

I need the corresponding imported component to be rendered depending on the state.

I wrote this logic using the ternary operator and everything works, but this code is terrible and unreadable.

import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";

import Header from "./header/header";
import Footer from "./footer/footer";

// One of these components will be rendered between Header and Footer ↓
// Name of the component in the state (activeItem)

import Landing from "./landing/landing";
import BookingManagement from "./bookingManagement/BookingManagement";
import BookingTickets from "./bookingTickets/bookingTickets";
import EnterProfile from "./enterProfile/enterProfile";
import PersonalArea from "./personalArea/personalArea";
import Register from "./register/register";
import SearchResults from "./searchResults/searchResults";
import ChoosePlace from "./choosePlace/choosePlace";

function App() {
  const [activeItem, setActiveItem] = useState("landing");

  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(activeItem);
  });

  return (
    <>
      <Header changeMain={setActiveItem} />
      {activeItem == "landing" ? <Landing changeMain={setActiveItem} /> : <></>}

      {activeItem == "bookingManagement" ? <BookingManagement /> : <></>}
      {activeItem == "bookingTickets" ? <BookingTickets /> : <></>}
      {activeItem == "enterProfile" ? <EnterProfile /> : <></>}
      {activeItem == "personalArea" ? <PersonalArea /> : <></>}
      {activeItem == "register" ? <Register /> : <></>}
      {activeItem == "searchResults" ? <SearchResults /> : <></>}

      {activeItem == "choosePlace" ? <ChoosePlace /> : <></>}

      <Footer changeMain={setActiveItem} />
    </>
  );
}

export default App;

I definitely need to implement this in the functional component, because I use hooks.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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How about

const ComponentMap = {
  landing: Landing,
  bookingManagement: BookingManagement,
  bookingTickets: BookingTickets,
  enterProfile: EnterProfile,
  personalArea: PersonalArea,
  register: Register,
  searchResults: SearchResults,
  choosePlace: ChoosePlace
};

function App() {
  const [activeItem, setActiveItem] = useState("landing");

  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(activeItem);
  });

  const ActiveComponent = ComponentMap[activeItem] || React.Fragment;
  const ActiveComponentProps = {};
  if (activeItem === "landing") {
    ActiveComponentProps.changeMain = setActiveItem;
  }
  
  return (
    <>
      <Header changeMain={setActiveItem} />
      <ActiveComponent {...ActiveComponentProps} />
      <Footer changeMain={setActiveItem} />
    </>
  );
}
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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instead of

{(activeItem=='landing' ? (
    <Landing changeMain={setActiveItem}/>
  ) : (
    <></>
  ))}

go with

{activeItem=='landing' && (
    <Landing changeMain={setActiveItem}/>
)}
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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you can go with react-router implementation. Or if you want to handle the same in this component you can do similar like below

const getComponent = () => {
  if (condition1) {
    return <Component1/>
  } else if (condition2) {
    return <Component2/>
  }
 
  return <DefaultComponent/>
}

and inside the render return you can call that function like below

return (
  {getComponent()}
)
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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