I'm making a Quiz app in react native and I want to shuffle the order of questions each time someone picks the quiz. I was thinking about using shuffle from lodash but I'm not totally sure how to do for nested array.

const getTest = async () => {

     try {
        const response = await fetch('https://tgryl.pl/quiz/test/'.concat(route.params.testId));
        const json = await response.json();
        setData(json);
     }
     catch (error) {
          console.error(error);
     } 
}

I was thinking about something like setData(_.shuffle(data.tasks)) ?? I have no idea

The JSON looks like this

CodePudding user response：

Apparently the array to be shuffled is stored in the tasks property of the response object, so you should shuffle that array and assign it back to that property:

json.tasks = _.shuffle(json.tasks);
setData(json);

Even though this mutates an object and then passes it to setData (which presumably calls setState/useState, and such mutation is usually a code smell), this is not an issue here, as this object was never used before for the state.

Unrelated, but I would not call that variable json. It is a JavaScript object. JSON is the term for the text format that the json() method retrieves from the request and converts to the object/array.

Use a name that describes the content, like quiz.

CodePudding user response：

You don't have nested arrays, you have arrays inside of an object. That's the response data structure you're receiving.

I think this is a fun question, so here I implemented an alternative way of shuffling the questions array.

Logic

Do a loop through all the questions and inside of it:

1. Generate a random index between 0 and the length of the questions array.
2. Use pop() to remove the last element of the array and return it to the Q variable.
3. Use splice() to add question Q to the random index generated.

const arr1 = [];
const arr2 = [
        {question: 'asd asd 1', answer: 'bla 1', duration: 10},
        {question: 'asd asd 2', answer: 'bla 2', duration: 20},
        {question: 'asd asd 3', answer: 'bla 3', duration: 15},
        {question: 'asd asd 4', answer: 'bla 4', duration: 30}
      ];
const arr3 = [];

const responseObject = {
  arr1,
  arr2,
  arr3
};
      
let questions = responseObject.arr2;

for(const question of questions){
  let randIndex = Math.round(Math.random()*(questions.length - 1));
  let Q = questions.pop(); 
  questions.splice(randIndex, 0, Q);
}

console.log(questions)