Warning: Each child in an array or iterator should have a unique "key" prop. Check the render method of `ToDos` - Reactjs

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February 21, 2023
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I am learning React and I built this app. While running code, I got this warning on console: Warning: Each child in an array or iterator should have a unique "key" prop. Check the render method of ToDos

This is my code:

return (
    <div className='container' style={todoStyle}>

      <h3 className='my-3'>ToDos List</h3>

      {props.todos.length === 0 ?
        "No ToDos to display" :
        props.todos.map((todo) => {
          return (
            <>
              <ToDoItem todo={todo} key={todo.sno} onDelete={props.onDelete} /> <hr />
            </>
          )
        })

      }

    </div>
  )

I have added key to ToDoItem yet I am getting this warning.

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I did some changes and it worked. I removed hr tag from return statement and returned only ToDoItem and used hr to show horizontal line in ToDoItem.js file. My new code looks like this:

return (
    <div className='container' style={todoStyle}>

      <h3 className='my-3'>ToDos List</h3>

      {props.todos.length === 0 ?
        "No ToDos to display" :
        props.todos.map((todo) => {
          return (
            <ToDoItem todo={todo} key={todo.sno} onDelete={props.onDelete} />
          )
        })

      }

    </div>
  )

ToDoItem.js:

return (
    <>
      <div>
        {/* <h4>{todo.sno}</h4> */}
        <h4>{todo.title}</h4>
        <p>{todo.description}</p>
        <button className="btn btn-sm btn-danger" onClick={() => { onDelete(todo) }}>Delete</button>
      </div>
      <hr />
    </>

  )

(Edit)

- AahanAgarwal
- February 21, 2023 at 7:23 pm
- 0 votes
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This warning is coming probably because the unique key prop should be on outermost element in the DOM tree.
return ( <div className='container' style={todoStyle}> <h3 className='my-3'>ToDos List</h3> {props.todos.length === 0 ? "No ToDos to display" : props.todos.map((todo, _i) => { return ( <React.Fragment key={`${_i}-${todo.sno}`}> <ToDoItem todo={todo} onDelete={props.onDelete}/> <hr/> <React.Fragment/> ); }); } </div> )
Also I’m not sure if todo.sno is unique thus implement index from map function to ensure the key prop remains unique.
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