Building Collapsible React Accordion

Introduction

In this lab, we will explore how to implement a collapsible accordion menu in React using components and hooks. The purpose of this lab is to provide a hands-on experience in building a functional accordion menu with multiple collapsible content elements. By the end of this lab, you will have a good understanding of how to use React to create dynamic and interactive user interfaces.

Collapsible Accordion

index.html and script.js have already been provided in the VM. In general, you only need to add code to script.js and style.css.

To render an accordion menu with multiple collapsible content elements, you can follow these steps:

1. Define an AccordionItem component that renders a <button> and updates the component while notifying its parent via the handleClick callback.
2. Use the isCollapsed prop in AccordionItem to determine its appearance and set its className.
3. Define an Accordion component and use the useState() hook to initialize the value of the bindIndex state variable to defaultIndex.
4. Filter children to remove unnecessary nodes, except for AccordionItem, by identifying the function's name.
5. Use Array.prototype.map() on the collected nodes to render the individual collapsible elements.
6. Define changeItem, which will be executed when clicking an AccordionItem's <button>.
7. changeItem executes the passed callback, onItemClick, and updates bindIndex based on the clicked element.

Here is the code:

.accordion-item.collapsed {
  display: none;
}

.accordion-item.expanded {
  display: block;
}

.accordion-button {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
}

const AccordionItem = ({ label, isCollapsed, handleClick, children }) => {
  return (
    <>
      <button className="accordion-button"
        {label}
      </button>
      <div
        className={`accordion-item ${isCollapsed ? "collapsed" : "expanded"}`}
        aria-expanded={isCollapsed}
      >
        {children}
      </div>
    </>
  );
};

const Accordion = ({ defaultIndex, onItemClick, children }) => {
  const [bindIndex, setBindIndex] = React.useState(defaultIndex);

  const changeItem = (itemIndex) => {
    if (typeof "function") onItemClick(itemIndex);
    if (itemIndex !== bindIndex) setBindIndex(itemIndex);
  };

  const items = children.filter((item) => item.type.name === "AccordionItem");

  return (
    <>
      {items.map(({ props }) => (
        <AccordionItem
          isCollapsed={bindIndex !== props.index}
          label={props.label}
          handleClick={() => changeItem(props.index)}
          children={props.children}
        />
      ))}
    </>
  );
};

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root")).render(
  <Accordion defaultIndex="1"
    <AccordionItem label="A" index="1">
      Lorem ipsum
    </AccordionItem>
    <AccordionItem label="B" index="2">
      Dolor sit amet
    </AccordionItem>
  </Accordion>
);

Please click on 'Go Live' in the bottom right corner to run the web service on port 8080. Then, you can refresh the Web 8080 Tab to preview the web page.

Summary

Congratulations! You have completed the Collapsible Accordion lab. You can practice more labs in LabEx to improve your skills.