How to sort an array of components in React Native?

Question

I have a nested map to iterate through my data and then return a react component for each object I have in my Data. Check the code below:

return props.dataArray.map((classObj) => {
                    return classObj.timetable.map((timetableObj) => {
                        if (timetableObj.weekday === props.day) {
                            return ttCard({
                                lecturer: classObj.lecturer,
                                module: classObj.module,
                                room: classObj.room,
                                class_id: classObj.id,
                                timetable_id: timetableObj.id,
                                startTime: timetableObj.start_time,
                                endTime: timetableObj.end_time,
                                weekday: timetableObj.weekday
                            });
                        }
                        return null;
                    });
                });

My issue is that my component aren't sorted and they have to be sorted because it is a timetable for students. Look at the image below and notice how 10:30 AM is the latest card in my tab view:

things I tried so far:

1- creating a new array then sorting it after the if statement block - not working 2- returning a sorted array to a function and mapping that array to return the component - not working 3- looping and returning the object as a function within the component parameter:

ttCard( sortedArr.forEach((ttObject) => {
return ttObject
}))

also not working

I have googled and tried to research but no hope so far. I know that initially my nested map is bad but this is how my object looks like:

[
    {
        "class_code": "English-5-G-2-L-1911-test-teacher",
        "id": 23,
        "lecturer": "test teacher",
        "module": "English-5",
        "room": "L",
        "timetable": [
            {
                "end_time": "9:00",
                "id": 37,
                "start_time": "8:00",
                "weekday": "Sunday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "10:00",
                "id": 38,
                "start_time": "9:00",
                "weekday": "Sunday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "10:00",
                "id": 47,
                "start_time": "9:00",
                "weekday": "Monday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "10:00",
                "id": 48,
                "start_time": "9:00",
                "weekday": "Tuesday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "11:30",
                "id": 52,
                "start_time": "10:30",
                "weekday": "Tuesday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "11:30",
                "id": 54,
                "start_time": "10:30",
                "weekday": "Thursday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "12:30",
                "id": 58,
                "start_time": "11:30",
                "weekday": "Thursday"
            },
            {
                "end_time": "14:00",
                "id": 61,
                "start_time": "13:00",
                "weekday": "Wednesday"
            }
        ]
    }
]

Answer 1

You can use sort on your output to arrange the array by startTime

.sort((a, b) => {
    // These lines are so we can directly compare the times
    // I would recommend to send timestamps down with your data (if possible)
    var aTime = a.startTime.replace(':', '');
    var bTime = b.startTime.replace(':', '');

    // Sort by smallest first
    return aTime - bTime;
  });

I would also suggest filtering out null values in your array

Using your example -

var classesArr = props.dataArray.map((classObj) => {
  return classObj.timetable.map((timetableObj) => {
    if (timetableObj.weekday === props.day) {
      return {
        lecturer: classObj.lecturer,
        module: classObj.module,
        room: classObj.room,
        class_id: classObj.id,
        timetable_id: timetableObj.id,
        startTime: timetableObj.start_time,
        endTime: timetableObj.end_time,
        weekday: timetableObj.weekday
      }
    }
    return null;
  }).filter(x => x); // Filter out any null values
}).filter(x => x); // Filter out any null values.

// Flatten array so it is sortable/mapable
return [].concat.apply([], classesArr).sort((a, b) => {
  // These lines are so we can directly compare the times
  // I would recommend to send timestamps down with your data (if possible)
  var aTime = a.startTime.replace(':', '');
  var bTime = b.startTime.replace(':', '');
  // Sort by smallest time first
  return aTime - bTime;
}).map((x) => {
  return ttCard(x);
})