Stack Overflow Asked on November 7, 2021
I want to check if a react element has only one child, and in case that is true and the type of that child is a specific type then inject a prop to it. The only safe way that I found to do it is this:
Children.count(children) === 1
? Children.map(children, (c) =>
c.type === FormRow
? cloneElement(c, { compact: c.props?.compact || true })
: c
)
: children
It’s a bit cumbersome, and the not even clear. Why I’m using Children.map for a single child? Because that is the only safe way react provides to access the opaque children structure.
I read the react API and it is very sparse in terms of children manipulation, very few methods.
Is there any better more obvious way?
I can build an utility function like this:
const isSingleChildOfType = (type, children) => {
const childrenArr = Children.toArray(children)
return childrenArr.length === 1 && childrenArr[0].type === type
}
But I’m not sure of the implications of turning children into an array. Does it alter the original children or creates a new one?
It is valid to use the .ToArray()
method as you are doing, but you can also access the children using indexing like [0]
to avoid your map.
Some docs also state:
When there is only a single child, this.props.children will be the single child component itself without the array wrapper. This saves an array allocation.
But I am unsure how true this is, worth testing with some console.logs in your case.
Answered by Luke Storry on November 7, 2021
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