I'm using ReactDOM.render
to replace certain "unreachable" parts of my code with JSX components, it worked fine in previous versions but now I'm getting this annoying error message and I want to get rid of it.
I'm using the FullCalendar
lib for react18 and Nextjs.
I'm facing a limitation from the lib, in previous versions I was able to pass JSX to render in the header buttons, but in the current version 5.11.2
it's not possible anymore, it only let you set either text or a bootstrap/font-awesome icon.
So I instead used an old known trick to replace DOM with no more than the HTML element
ReactDOM.render(
<AnyIconIWantToUse />,
window.document.querySelector("#element-to-replace-id")
)
and that is what brings up the said error message
As the error suggest I've tried using createRoot
instead but it gives me an error too (and afaik it's meant to be used only with the root component so I prefer not to use it).
I ended up achieving what I wanted with another approach.
Instead of replacing DOM content directly with JSX I instead render the desired JSX into the DOM and replace the DOM with DOM
// utils/replaceDOM.ts
import type React from 'react';
import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server';
type ReplaceDOM = (
elementToReplace: Element,
replacement: React.ReactElement
) => void;
const replaceDOM: ReplaceDOM = (elementToReplace, replacement) => {
if (!replacement) return;
// Get html from component (only get first render)
const replacementHTML = renderToString(replacement);
// Parse html string into html
const parser = new DOMParser();
const parsedDocument = parser.parseFromString(replacementHTML, 'text/html');
const replacementElement = parsedDocument.body.children[0];
// Append replacement to DOM
window.document.body.prepend(replacementElement);
// Replace children with element
elementToReplace.replaceWith(replacementElement);
};
export default replaceDOM;
Then I can use it as desired
replaceDOM(elementToReplace, <ElementIWant className="w-6" />);