drcmda/react-higher-order

☔️ Maps render props to a higher order component

npm install react-higher-order

The old problem ...

const RenderProps = ({ children }) => children({ value: 123 })

class Test extends React.Component {
  componentDidUpdate() {
    // How the hell do i access render props in here???
  }
  render() {
    return <RenderProps>{props => props.value}</RenderProps>
  }
}

And the solution ...

import hoc from 'react-higher-order'

const RenderProps = ({ children }) => children({ value: 123 })

@hoc(RenderProps, (props, ownProps) => ({ number: props[ownProps.accessor] }))
class Test extends React.Component {
  componentDidUpdate() {
    console.log(this.props.number)
  }
  render() {
    return this.props.number
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<Test accessor="value" />, document.querySelector('#root'))

API

hoc(RenderPropsComponent, mapRenderPropsToProps = props => props)(WrappedComponent)

• RenderPropsComponent is the component you want to fold into
• mapRenderPropsToProps is optional and defaults to props => props, use it to pick the props you are interested in. You can also use this to selectively access only a portion of the RenderPropComponent's props, your own component will then only render if these props change. You have access to the components own-props as a second argument.
• WrappedComponent is the component that is going to receive the props.

Contributions

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