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How to pass props to {this.props.children}

I’m trying to find the proper way to define some components which could be used in a generic way: There is a logic going on for rendering between parent and children components of course, you can imagine <select> and <option> as an example of this logic. This is a dummy implementation for th…

Use freshdesk feedback widget in React.js application

I am trying to use Freshdesk’s feedback widget in my React.js application. I am trying to initialize and show the widget in my root component’s componentDidMount method as follows The widget is not getting displayed and the following error is thrown in the console Answer You have to pass another p…

How do I conditionally add attributes to React components?

Is there a way to only add attributes to a React component if a certain condition is met? I’m supposed to add required and readOnly attributes to form elements based on an Ajax call after render, but I can’t see how to solve this since readOnly=”false” is not the same as omitting the a…

React – getting a component from a DOM element for debugging

For the purposes of debugging in the console, is there any mechanism available in React to use a DOM element instance to get the backing React component? This question has been asked previously in the context of using it in production code. However, my focus is on development builds for the purpose of debuggi…

How to manually invoke Link in React-router?

I have a component that receives through props a <Link/> object from react-router. Whenever the user clicks on a ‘next’ button inside this component I want to invoke <Link/> object manually. Right now, I’m using refs to access the backing instance and manually clicking on the &#8…