React props - set isRequired on a prop if another prop is null / empty

Question

I have a component <Button>.
If the component doesn't has this.props.children, I want to set the prop ariaLabel as isRequired, otherwise in can be optional. How do I do that?

ariaLabel prop not required:

<Button>Add to bag</Button>

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ariaLabel prop has to be required:

<Button ariaLabel="Add to bag" icon={ favorite } />

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if this.props.children and this.props.ariaLabel are empty, it throws an error saying that this.props.ariaLabel is isRequired

<Button icon={ favorite } />

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propTypes:

Button.propTypes = {
    /** icon inside Button. */
    icon: React.PropTypes.object,
    /** Content inside button */
    children: React.PropTypes.node,
    /** Aria-label to screen readers */
    ariaLabel: React.PropTypes.string, /*isRequired if children is empty */
};

Thanks

Answer 1

You don't need another library, 'prop-types' provides this out of the box. See https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/typechecking-with-proptypes.html

Example:

import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

//.......    

ExampleComponent.propTypes = {
    showDelete: PropTypes.bool,
    handleDelete: function(props, propName, componentName) {
        if ((props['showDelete'] == true && (props[propName] == undefined || typeof(props[propName]) != 'function'))) {
            return new Error('Please provide a handleDelete function!');
        }
    },

}

Answer 2

This may be exactly what you need: https://github.com/thejameskyle/react-required-if

In your case, your propTypes would be:

import requiredIf from 'react-required-if';

Button.propTypes = {
    /** icon inside Button. */
    icon: React.PropTypes.object,
    /** Content inside button */
    children: React.PropTypes.node,
    /** Aria-label to screen readers */
    ariaLabel: requiredIf(React.PropTypes.string, props => !props.children), /*isRequired if children is empty */
};

Answer 3

To add to @chickenchilli's answer above, you could abstract this into a more handy helper function like this:

conditionalPropType.js

export default function conditionalPropType(condition, message) {
  if(typeof condition !== 'function') throw "Wrong argument type 'condition' supplied to 'conditionalPropType'";
  return function(props, propName, componentName) {
    if (condition(props, propName, componentName)) {
      return new Error(`Invalid prop '${propName}' '${props[propName]}' supplied to '${componentName}'. ${message}`);
    }
  }
}

MyComponent.js

import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import conditionalPropType from './conditionalPropType';

[...]

MyComponent.propTypes = {
  conditionProp: PropTypes.bool,
  dependentProp: conditionalPropType(props => (props.condition && typeof(props.someProp) !== 'boolean'), "'dependentProp' must be boolean if 'conditionProp' is true"),
};