My structure looks as follows:
Component 1
- |- Component 2
- - |- Component 4
- - - |- Component 5
Component 3
Component 3 should display some data depending on state of Component 5.
Since props are immutable, I can't simply save its state in Component 1 and forward it, right? And yes, I've read about Redux, but I don't want to use it. I hope that it's possible to solve it just with react. Am I wrong?
For child-parent communication you should pass a function setting the state from parent to child, like this
class Parent extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props)
this.handler = this.handler.bind(this)
}
handler() {
this.setState({
someVar: 'some value'
})
}
render() {
return <Child handler = {this.handler} />
}
}
class Child extends React.Component {
render() {
return <Button onClick = {this.props.handler}/ >
}
}
This way the child can update the parent's state with the call of a function passed with props.
But you will have to rethink your components' structure, because as I understand components 5 and 3 are not related.
One possible solution is to wrap them in a higher level component which will contain the state of both component 1 and 3. This component will set the lower level state through props.