Getting error trying to launch playVideo after onready fired
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Please check my code. This is very simple component containing just Youtube component. If I add button and launch video - it works completely OK. However I'm getting error trying to launch playVideo right after onready fired:
https://codesandbox.io/s/green-thunder-6omczn?file=/src/components/YoutubeErrorOnStart.js
Any ideas how to fix that?
On another related question here - what is the best practice to switch videoId (I mean to change current video for the component)? I mean that changing videoId property itself is not enough, because we need again to wait for player to become ready, and we again face the same issue I described before.
You don't need the onReady event to fire the video, that's handled by your useEffect. What yr missing is that you're not shadowing that videoID, so the component doesn't know when to re-render or whatevz. Whatever it does nowadays.
Read up on hooks and what lifecycle method's they replace.
To switch videoID and have it autoplay this works as is. You don't need the player to become ready, cus that's what hooks do for you. The only reason you need the if conditional is because you set the player to start null. So you can get rid of that too.
If you have little prev/next arrows, you can set the videoId on click there. If you want to keep autoplay. you'll have to use onEnded.
You may need the onReady for other stuff, but not for this case. Also, avoid those _underScore vars, they're weird. That's not how you denote privacy in JS.
That fragment wrapping the youtube component is unnecessary.
Ok lol, you also don't need the player. What's the deal with that? Read the docs, notice what the target is.
K, that should do it. Check the fork again. Bonus points if you tell me why I used closures in the callbacks instead of naming them with that ugly underscore prefix
long story short: you dont need useEffect here.
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