Pass props to another component onclick of a button

Question

In my nextJS app, I want to pass props of one component to another which is neither a parent nor child of first component.How can I do that?

There is a Order

Answer 1

In your case you need to deal with callbacks. Callback is a concept in react.

Declare an event handler function in orders.js which sets the orderId to the state when button clicked in orders.js component and pass down that event handler function to Order component as props and pass down orderId as a prop to OrderViewer component

orders.js

  constructor(props){
      super(props);
      this.state = {
           orderId: null
      }
  }
  handleViewOrder = orderId = {
      this.setState({
          orderId
      });
  }
  render(){
    return(<div>
     <div><Order 
       orderno='abc'
       title='abc'
      status='abc'
      entity='abc'
      po='abc'
      duedate='abc' handleViewOrder={this.handleViewOrder} /></div>
  </div>
  <div><OrderViewer orderId={this.state.orderId} /></div>)}

Now in order.js access the received handler function using props and assign it to button onClick by passing orderId

   <div>
      <button onClick={() => this.props.handleViewOrder(this.props.orderno)}>View Order</button>
      <p><span>{this.props.orderno}</span> 
     <span>{this.props.title}</span></p>
     <p>{this.props.entity} - {this.props.po}</p>
     <p>Due {this.props.duedate}</p>
 </div>

Now, you can access orderId using this.props.orderId in OrderViewer component and display it

OrderViewer.js

   <div>{this.props.orderId}</div>

So having an event handler function in parent component and passing down as props to child component and assigning to child component button onClick and when clicked changing parent state is so called callbacks in react. If you understand what I am trying to explain in my answer you can get going easily

Edit:

In Order.js component

Change

  <button onClick={() => this.handleViewOrder(this.props.orderno)}>View Order</button>

To

   <button onClick={() => this.props.handleViewOrder(this.props.orderno)}>View Order</button>

Also you are calling Order component in loop but you are not setting unique key to Order component so

Change

            { Orders.map((order) => <Order 
                 orderno={order.orderno}
            title={order.title}
                 status={order.status}
                entity={order.entity}
                po={order.po}
            duedate={order.duedate}
            handleViewOrder={this.handleViewOrder}/> )}

To

            { Orders.map((order) => <Order 
            orderno={order.orderno}
            title={order.title}
            status={order.status}
                entity={order.entity}
            po={order.po}
                            key={order.orderno}
            duedate={order.duedate}
            handleViewOrder={this.handleViewOrder}/> )}

Answer 2

So, reasoning is:

1. you have some parent component/screen. Lets call it OrdersPage
2. within OrdersPage you have 2 components: Order and OrdersViewer
3. what you are interested in, within context of parent components (OrdersPage) is to know which order was clicked and show that in other child
4. obviously, you need state on your OrdersPage component
5. when you click some order, you will put it in state
6. your other component will receive state as props and show clicked component