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

You can use refs to keep track of the components.

If you know of a way to set the ref of one individual component (the last one), please post!

Here's what I found worked for me:

class ChatContainer extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const {
      messages
    } = this.props;

    var messageBubbles = messages.map((message, idx) => (
       this['_div' + idx] = ref}
      />
    ));

    return (
      

        {messageBubbles}
      
    );
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.handleResize();

    // Scroll to the bottom on initialization
    var len = this.props.messages.length - 1;
    const node = ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this['_div' + len]);
    if (node) {
      node.scrollIntoView();
    }
  }

  componentDidUpdate() {
    // Scroll as new elements come along
    var len = this.props.messages.length - 1;
    const node = ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this['_div' + len]);
    if (node) {
      node.scrollIntoView();
    }
  }
}