How to scroll to bottom in react?

Question

I want to build a chat system and automatically scroll to the bottom when entering the window and when new messages come in. How do you automatically scroll to the bottom of

Answer 1

Do not use findDOMNode

Class components with ref

class MyComponent extends Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.scrollToBottom();
  }

  componentDidUpdate() {
    this.scrollToBottom();
  }

  scrollToBottom() {
    this.el.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });
  }

  render() {
    return 
 { this.el = el; }} />
  }
}

Function components with hooks:

import React, { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';

const MyComponent = () => {
  const divRref = useRef(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    divRef.current.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });
  });

  return 
;
}