React - TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of undefined

Question

I am building a Charts Gallery using the Recharts library.

These are the files i am working on

The data fixtures is charts.js

const charts = [
  {name: 'Page A', uv: 4000, pv: 2400, amt: 2400},
  {name: 'Page B', uv: 3000, pv: 1398, amt: 2210},
  {name: 'Page C', uv: 2000, pv: 9800, amt: 2290},
  {name: 'Page D', uv: 2780, pv: 3908, amt: 2000},
  {name: 'Page E', uv: 1890, pv: 4800, amt: 2181},
  {name: 'Page F', uv: 2390, pv: 3800, amt: 2500},
  {name: 'Page G', uv: 3490, pv: 4300, amt: 2100},
];

export default charts;

The data is correctly imported in my store with the rest of the other datas

Then i have my ChartsGrid.js where the error comes from

import React from 'react';
import Chart from './Chart';

export default class ChartsGrid extends React.Component{
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="grid">
        {this.props.charts.map((chart, i) => <Chart {...this.props} key={i} i={i} chart={chart} />)}
      </div>
    )
  }
};

and here my chart component importing modules from the recharts library

import React from 'react';
import { Link } from 'react-router';
import { ResponsiveContainer, LineChart, Line, XAxis, YAxis, ReferenceLine,
  ReferenceDot, Tooltip, CartesianGrid, Legend, Brush } from 'recharts';

export default class Chart extends React.Component {
  render () {
    const { chart, i} = this.props;
    return (
        <LineChart width={600} height={300} data={charts}
            margin={{top: 5, right: 30, left: 20, bottom: 5}}>
       <XAxis dataKey="name"/>
       <YAxis/>
       <CartesianGrid strokeDasharray="3 3"/>
       <Tooltip/>
       <Legend />
       <Line type="monotone" dataKey="pv" stroke="#8884d8" activeDot={{r: 8}}/>
       <Line type="monotone" dataKey="uv" stroke="#82ca9d" />
      </LineChart>
    );
  }
};

Why is it throwing this error TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of undefined ? What is actually undefined?

Answer 1

Looks like you have not imported the charts.js file before using the charts array.

You could import the charts.js file where you use the ChartsGrid component and pass charts as a prop:

import charts from './charts'
...
<ChartsGrid charts={charts} />

Or, you could use the charts object directly in ChartsGrid.js instead of this.props.

import charts from './charts'

export default class ChartsGrid extends React.Component{
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="grid">
        {charts.map((chart, i) => 
          <Chart {...this.props} key={i} i={i} chart={chart} />)}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

Note charts.map instead of this.props.charts.map because charts is directly imported in the file instead of being passed as a prop to the component (as in the 1st solution).