Trying to learn something about filtering and ordering in Angular 2. I can't seem to find any decent resources and I'm stuck at how to order an ngFor output in reverse order using the index. I have written the the following pipe put it keeps giving me errors that array slice in not a function.
@Pipe({
name: 'reverse'
})
export class ReversePipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(arr) {
var copy = arr.slice();
return copy.reverse();
}
}
and my ngfor looks like this.
<div class="table-row generic" *ngFor="let advert of activeAdverts | reverse let i = index;" [attr.data-index]="i" (click)="viewAd(advert.title)">
<div class="table-cell white-text">{{ i+1 }}</div>
<div class="table-cell white-text">{{advert.title}}</div>
<div class="table-cell green-text">{{advert.advert}}</div>
</div>
For such common use cases, I would suggest you to use reverse pipe from ng-pipes module:
https://github.com/danrevah/ng-pipes#reverse-1
From the DOCS:
in the controller:
this.items = [1, 2, 3];
in the view:
<li *ngFor="let item of items | reverse"> <!-- Array: [3, 2, 1] -->
I would add .slice()
as well
*ngFor="let advert of activeAdverts.slice().reverse() let i = index;"
I think @BhaskerYadav gave the best answer. Changing the original array is a bad idea and his/her idea has no side-effects, performance or otherwise. IMHO it just needs a slight improvement as all that index dereferencing is unreadable at scale.
<tr *ngFor="let _ of activeAdverts; let i = index">
<ng-container *ngIf="activeAdverts[activeAdverts.length-i-1] as advert">
<td>{{advert.p}}</td>
<td>{{advert.q}}</td>
...
</ng-container>
</tr>
Using the following method u can reverse the output, but orignal array won't be modified,
<tr *ngFor="let advert of activeAdverts; let i = index" >
<td>{{activeAdverts[activeAdverts.length-i-1]}}</td>
</tr>
The most simple way I was able to make it work is to just use activeAdverts.reverse()
.
In your case:
<div class="table-row generic" *ngFor="let advert of activeAdverts.reverse() let i = index;" [attr.data-index]="i" (click)="viewAd(advert.title)">
<div class="table-cell white-text">{{ i+1 }}</div>
<div class="table-cell white-text">{{advert.title}}</div>
<div class="table-cell green-text">{{advert.advert}}</div>
</div>
I found this answer to do the trick