SolidJS•2y ago

I don't like refs

Not really a solidJS question but there are smart people here. If there's a rule against this I will remove this post. I am storing a bunch of refs in an array like this: setRefs((p) => [...p, el])} .....> Stuff From Database The resulting array of refs have worked fine for what I've used them for so far. Each element is the result of a value pulled from a database. But what I just implemented is the ability to search the database and get back a subset of the elements. The goal is to be able to click on each item in the subset that's returned from the search and .scrollIntoView the corresponding element in the main page. If I was doing this with ids I would just give each element an id of the primary key from the database. When the user searches each of their search results will also have the primary key from the database and I could just getElementById the element with the id of what the user clicked on and .scrollIntoView to it. That's how I imagine it in my head. Not sure how do to that with a ref. I could check the textContent of each ref in the array of refs and see if it matches the textContent of what the user clicked on and then scrollIntoView that ref?

4 Replies

Otonashi•2y ago

you could use ids, nothing is restricting you to refs really, though i don't think your problem here has to do with refs but with storing them in an array instead of a map or object etc like maybe a store since that's the simplest way to do it (if it even needs to be reactive), then do store[primaryKey].scrollIntoView()

GrahfOP•2y ago

Thank you. Not sure if this is what you meant or not but I went with this: setRefs((p) => [...p, { ref: el, item:itemId }]) So yes I use an object now to store the ref and the items Id. Then I use the find function to find the right ref to scroll into view.

const handleClick = (id) => {
    const matchingRef = refs().find((ref) => ref.item === id)
    matchingRef.ref.scrollIntoView()
  }

const handleClick = (id) => {
    const matchingRef = refs().find((ref) => ref.item === id)
    matchingRef.ref.scrollIntoView()
  }

Otonashi•2y ago

setRefs((p) => ({...p, [itemId]: el }))

setRefs((p) => ({...p, [itemId]: el }))

const handleClick = (id) => {
    const matchingRef = refs[id];
    matchingRef.scrollIntoView()
}

const handleClick = (id) => {
    const matchingRef = refs[id];
    matchingRef.scrollIntoView()
}

GrahfOP•2y ago

oh 😅

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I don't like refs