I wrote some code:
function renderGreeting(Elem: React.Component) { return Hello, !; } I'm getting an error:
JSX element type
Elemdoes not have any construct or call signatures
What does it mean?
I wrote some code:
function renderGreeting(Elem: React.Component) { return Hello, !; } I'm getting an error:
JSX element type
Elemdoes not have any construct or call signatures
What does it mean?
This is a confusion between constructors and instances.
Remember that when you write a component in React:
class Greeter extends React.Component { render() { return Hello, {this.props.whoToGreet}; } } You use it this way:
return ; You don't use it this way:
let Greet = new Greeter(); return ; In the first example, we're passing around Greeter, the constructor function for our component. That's the correct usage. In the second example, we're passing around an instance of Greeter. That's incorrect, and will fail at runtime with an error like "Object is not a function".
The problem with this code
function renderGreeting(Elem: React.Component) { return Hello, !; } is that it's expecting an instance of React.Component. What you want a function that takes a constructor for React.Component:
function renderGreeting(Elem: new() => React.Component) { return Hello, !; } or similarly:
function renderGreeting(Elem: typeof React.Component) { return Hello, !; } If you want to take a component class as a parameter (vs an instance), use React.ComponentClass:
function renderGreeting(Elem: React.ComponentClass) { return Hello, !; } When I'm converting from JSX to TSX and we keep some libraries as js/jsx and convert others to ts/tsx I almost always forget to change the js/jsx import statements from
import * as ComponentName from "ComponentName";
to
import ComponentName from "ComponentName";
for tsx