@cyclops24: you might consider a more flexible alternative. By that I mean that you manage state via a parent component that automatically gets rerendered whenever you click a new menu item: https://community.onsen.io/topic/821/splitterside/3

@munsterlander: thank you. I managed to do it differently with three components (parent and 2 child components ( <SideMenu> and <Navigator> ). In short:

{/* Parent component with initialroute */}

class Main extends Component {
        constructor( props ){
		super( props );
		this.state = { 
					isOpen: false,
					route: { component: Home, key: "HOME_PAGE" } 
					};
		this.hide = this.hide.bind( this );
		this.setView = this.setView.bind( this );
		this.renderPage = this.renderPage.bind( this );
	}
...

	renderPage( route, navigator ){
		return <Page
			renderToolbar={ this.renderToolbar.bind( this ) }
			renderFixed={ this.renderFixed.bind( this ) }
		>
		  <this.state.route.component key={ this.state.route.key } navigator={ navigator } { ...route.props } />
		</Page>
	}

...

render(){ return (
   <Splitter>
	 <SplitterSide
	            side='left'
	            isOpen={ this.state.isOpen }
	            onClose={ this.hide.bind( this ) }
	            onOpen={ this.show.bind( this ) }
                    {/* Other options */}
                    >
		    <Page>
			<SideMenu
				hide={ this.hide }
				setView={ this.setView }
			/>
		    </Page>
	</SplitterSide>
	<SplitterContent>
		<Navigator
			renderPage={ this.renderPage }
			initialRoute={ this.state.route }
		/>
	</SplitterContent>
    </Splitter>

Then in the <SideMenu> component you can alter the parents state via the setView function (accessible via this.props.setView):

	{ /* Each menu-item has an id ('idx' ). MetuData is an array of objects defined outside of the React component:
        const menuData = [
  	  { index: 1, title: "Home",  key: "HOME_PAGE", component: Home },
  	  { index: 2, title: "Page1", key: "PAGE1", component: Page1 },
  	  { index: 3, title: "Page2", key: "PAGE2", component: Page2 },
  	  { index: 4, title: "Page3", key: "PAGE3", component: Page3 }
        ];
       The child component manages the parent state (in this example you import the Pages1/2/3 components in the <SideMenu> component).
       */ }

export class SideMenu extends Component {
	constructor( props ){
		super( props );
		this.setRoute = this.setRoute.bind( this );
	}
       setRoute( idx ){
		const { component, key } = menuData.find(  ( item ) => item.index === idx );
		this.props.hide();
		return this.props.setView( component, key );
	}
...

Because of the state changes, React will rerender the parent component. It is probably a more React-style way of implementing this. (I already had this, it wasn’t working because I didn’t have to latest version of the react-onsenui package installed - there was an issue with the <Navigator> component: https://github.com/OnsenUI/react-onsenui/issues/94)

Hi,

You provide a very nice interactive tutorial.

Currently I am working on an app that contains a side menu. The setup is similar to the example provided in the tutorial (the navigation icon is located top-left). It is not clear to me how I should construct the navigation from the menu. Since this feature is not implemented in the tutorial for React, I was hoping that you can provide one.

Use case:

• User opens the side menu
• Clicks a menu item
• The contents of the SplitterContent component changes to that associated with the menu item that was clicked; the menu item icon should remain available in the top left corner

Many thanks

Regards,

Jan

The Onsen UI tutorial for React regarding the navigation via a side menu does no cover handling the click on a menu item. I do have a question about this part.

Let’s say that I have an app with a side-menu. It is a tree structure; there is no shortcut from a lower level menu item (e.g. Item 1.1) to another lower level item (e.g. Item 2.1) from a different Menu.

I am not making use of Redux by the way. In the App component I initialise the routing for the Root component. I am wondering which construct I should use to render the appropriate page given a click on a menu item (e.g. Menu item 2). Do you have any suggestions for me?

Menu structure:

MenuRoot
 |- Menu item 1
		|- Item 1.1
		|- Item 1.2
		|- ...
 |- Menu item 2
		|- Item 2.1
		|- Item 2.2
		|- ...
 |- ...

Code for the Appcomponent (top-level component), the entry-point for the side-menu code:

...

// App component
<Navigator
	renderPage={ this.renderPage }
	initialRoute={ { component: MenuRootPage, key: 'MENUROOT' } }
/>

...

The UI component for the side menu:

...

const menuData = [ 
	{ index: 1, title: "Menu item 1", component: "M1", icon: ... }, 
	{ index: 2, title: "Menu item 2", component: "M2", icon: ... },
	{ index: 3, title: "Menu item 3", component: "M3", icon: ... },
	{ index: 4, title: "Menu item 4", component: "M4", icon: ... }
]; 

...
	
<List
	dataSource={ menuData  }
	renderHeader={ () => <ListHeader>Menu</ListHeader> }
	renderRow={ ( data ) => {
			return <ListItem 
					key={ `menuItem-${data.index}` } 
					modifier='longdivider' 
					tappable >
					<Icon
						icon={ data.icon } 
						size="50px" 
						fixed-width="true"
					/>
					{ `${data.title}` }
				</ListItem>
			}
		}
	/>