Object is not iterable Error while Using React-Context

Question

So I recently started using React and am learning the Context Api. The zest of my code is:

export const UsersContext = createContext();
export function UsersProvider(props) {
    const fetchedItem = async function () {
        const data = await fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users');
        const users = await data.json();
        setUsers(users);
    };
    const [users, setUsers] = useState([]);
    useEffect(function () {
        fetchedItem();
    }, []);

    return (
        <UsersContext.Provider value={[users, setUsers]}>{props.children}</UsersContext.Provider>
    );
}

And I try to import and iterate over the users array like so:

import { UsersContext, UsersProvider } from './UsersContext';
export default function UsersPage() {
    const [users, setUsers] = useContext(UsersContext);
return (
        <UsersProvider>
{users.map(function (user) {
//I do something with user object});}
</UsersProvider>

The issue is this does not work and I am not sure what the terminologies are to search it on the web. I get TypeError: Object is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator)) which to me means that users is not an array? But it is as far as I am concerned. Any suggestions for fixing/debugging this?

Answer 1

You're using useContext outside of the provider, you should use useContext in a child component.

import { UsersContext, UsersProvider } from './UsersContext';
export default function UsersPage() {
  const [users, setUsers] = useContext(UsersContext);
  return (
    <UsersProvider>
      {users.map(function (user) {
        <div key={user.id}>{user.id}</div>
      })}
    </UsersProvider>
  );
}

is the same as

import { UsersContext, UsersProvider } from './UsersContext';
export default function UsersPage() {
  return (
    <UsersContext.Consumer>
      {([users, setUsers]) => (
        <UsersProvider>
          {users.map(function(user) {
            <div key={user.id}>{user.id}</div>;
          })}
        </UsersProvider>
      )}
    </UsersContext.Consumer>
  );
}

as you can see the consumer is not a child of the provider, thus there is nothing provided to it. Consuming it in a child component works.

import { UsersContext, UsersProvider } from './UsersContext';
export default function UsersPage() {
  return (
    <UsersProvider>
      <UsersPageChild />
    </UsersProvider>
  );
}

function UsersPageChild() {
  const [users, setUsers] = useContext(UsersContext);
  return (
    <div>
      {users.map(function(user) {
        <div key={user.id}>{user.id}</div>;
      })}
    </div>
  );
}