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

import React, {Component} from 'react';

export default class ChatOutPut extends Component {

    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            messages: props.chatmessages
        };
    }
    componentDidUpdate = (previousProps, previousState) => {
        if (this.refs.chatoutput != null) {
            this.refs.chatoutput.scrollTop = this.refs.chatoutput.scrollHeight;
        }
    }
    renderMessage(data) {
        return (
            

                {data.message}
            
        );
    }
    render() {
        return (
            

                {this.state.messages.map(this.renderMessage, this)}
            
        );
    }
}