useQuery – can not read properties of undefined

November 14, 2022

Initial query returns undefined, but all subsequent calls return valid data. If I try to map my response, an error is thrown:

can not read properties of undefined

and the whole app is down. How do i fix this?

import { useQuery } from "@apollo/client";
import { Component } from "react";
import { useState, useEffect } from "react";

import GET_PRODUCTS from '../../server/getProducts';

import './productList.sass';

class ProductList extends Component {

    render() {
        return (
            <RenderProducts />
        );
    }
}

const RenderProducts = () => {
    
    const { data } = useQuery(GET_PRODUCTS);
    console.log(data.products.map(product => console.log(product)));
    const products = data.products.map((product) => {
        return (
            <li className="productList__item">
                <img className="productList__item-img" src={product.mainImage.url} alt={product.title} />
                    <div className="productList__item-descr">
                        <div className="productList__item-title">{product.title}</div>
                        <div className="productList__item-price">{product.price} $</div>
                </div>
            </li>
        )
    })
    return <ul>{products}</ul>
}

export default ProductList;

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>Solution :

If I try to map my response, an error is thrown:
and the whole app is down. How do i fix this?

You’ll need to render something when the query is in a loading state. You can take advantage of the loading and error properties of useQuery hook. Here’s a sample:

const RenderProducts = () => {
    
    const { data, loading, error } = useQuery(GET_PRODUCTS);

    if(loading) return <div>loading...</div>
    if(error) return <div>cannot render products...something went wrong</div>

    // if the query has finished loading products and there's no error, 
    // You can access data.products
    // and write your logic 
    console.log(data.products.map(product => console.log(product)));
    const products = data.products.map((product) => {
        return (
            <li className="productList__item">
                <img className="productList__item-img" src={product.mainImage.url} alt={product.title} />
                    <div className="productList__item-descr">
                        <div className="productList__item-title">{product.title}</div>
                        <div className="productList__item-price">{product.price} $</div>
                </div>
            </li>
        )
    })
    return <ul>{products}</ul>
}