如何在没有要映射的对象数组的情况下在 React.js 中循环和渲染元素?

I'm trying to convert a jQuery component to React.js and one of the things I'm having difficulty with is rendering n number of elements based on a for loop.

I understand this is not possible, or recommended and that where an array exists in the model it makes complete sense to use map. That's fine, but what about when you do not have an array? Instead you have numeric value which equates to a given number of elements to render, then what should you do?

Here's my example, I want to prefix a element with an arbitrary number of span tags based on it's hierarchical level. So at level 3, I want 3 span tags before the text element.

In javascript:

for (var i = 0; i < level; i++) {
    $el.append('<span class="indent"></span>');
}
$el.append('Some text value');

I can't seem to get this, or anything similar to work in a JSX React.js component. Instead I had to do the following, first building a temp array to the correct length and then looping the array.

React.js

render: function() {
  var tmp = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < this.props.level; i++) {
    tmp.push(i);
  }
  var indents = tmp.map(function (i) {
    return (
      <span className='indent'></span>
    );
  });

  return (
    ...
    {indents}
    "Some text value"
    ...
  );
}

Surely this can't be the best, or only way to achieve this? What am I missing?

解决方案

Updated: As of React > 0.16

Render method does not necessarily have to return a single element. An array can also be returned.

var indents = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.props.level; i++) {
  indents.push(<span className='indent' key={i}></span>);
}
return indents;

OR

return this.props.level.map((item, index) => (
    <span className="indent" key={index}>
        {index}
    </span>
));

Docs here explaining about JSX children

---

OLD:

You can use one loop instead

var indents = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.props.level; i++) {
  indents.push(<span className='indent' key={i}></span>);
}
return (
   <div>
    {indents}
    "Some text value"
   </div>
);

You can also use .map and fancy es6

return (
   <div>
    {this.props.level.map((item, index) => (
       <span className='indent' key={index} />
    ))}
    "Some text value"
   </div>
);

Also, you have to wrap the return value in a container. I used div in the above example

As the docs say here

Currently, in a component's render, you can only return one node; if you have, say, a list of divs to return, you must wrap your components within a div, span or any other component.