React.js - input losing focus when rerendering

Question

I am just writing to text input and in onChange event i call setState, so React rerenders my UI. The problem is that the text input always lose a f

Answer 1

I had this issue and the problem turned out to be that I was using a functional component and linking up with a parent component's state. If I switched to using a class component, the problem went away. Hopefully there is a way around this when using functional components as it's a lot more convenient for simple item renderers et al.