Conditionally make a page read-only using react - html

Question

I want to create a React webpage that has both editable and read-only versions, the whole page not just a few elements on the page. A version is displayed to the user based on user id and other conditions. How do I do it?
The only straight forward way I know is to create 2 pages one editable and one read-only and based on the condition show the appropriate version (html page) to the user.
Is there a better and smarter way to do this? Like can I create just one page for both versions and toggle the mode based on the condition to the users?

Answer 1

Your question should have provided an example of some code you had tried but based on the description, very rough example below of one of many possible solutions.
Suppose EditView component is your page and you are able to pass a value for permission based on whatever credential you need to apply.
Then you have a component, ExampleField that takes the permission and displays either an input or static text. A collection of multiple of these fields is mapped from a theoretical array of data that you'll have to fetch from somewhere and the fields are returned by the main component.
const EditView = ({permission}) => {
const [editable, setEditable] = useState();
const [values, setValues] = useState([]);
useEffect(() => {
setEditable(permission);
}, [permission]);
useEffect(() => {
//maybe fetch your data from a back end or whatever and assign it to `values`
//on page load
}, [])
const ExampleField = ({permission, val, index}) => {
const handleChange = (e) => {
let vals = [...values];
vals[index] = val;
setValues(vals);
}
return(
<>
{permission
? <input name="example" type="text" defaultValue={val}
onChange={handleChange} />
: <span>{val}</span>}
</>
)
}
const fields = values.map((value, i) => {
return <ExampleField permission={permission} val={value} index={i}/>
})
return(
<>
{fields}
</>
)
}
Most likely, you'll want to break out various field components into their own file and, instead of using useState, you would probably want to explore useContext or useStore type functionality to lift up your state and do all the react things.
*Haven't tested or even compiled this code - for illustration purposes only.