How to use an array as option for react select component

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Because it’s just javascript, there are a million ways. The way I usually take is to map the container to generate the guts. A for loop or whatever would also work just fine.

const Answer = react.createClass({

    render: function() {

        var Data     = ['this', 'example', 'isnt', 'funny'],
            MakeItem = function(X) {
                return <option>{X}</option>;
            };


        return <select>{Data.map(MakeItem)}</select>;

    }

};

Or in es6 in more modern react you can just

const Answer = props => 
  <select>{
    props.data.map( (x,y) => 
      <option key={y}>{x}</option> )
  }</select>;

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