Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Question: Ref.seekTo is not a function

See original GitHub issue

I am using react-player with my next.js site and am having trouble using seekTo function. It results in error saying: “playerRef.seekTo is not a function”

I tried “playerRef.current.seekTo(parseFloat(e.target.value))” as well but same error occurs

This was my code:

import { useRef } from "react";
 const ReactPlayer = dynamic(() => import("react-player"), { ssr: false });

 const Player = ({url}) => {

 const playerRef = useRef();

 const [player, setPlayer] = useState({
     playing: true,
     muted: true,
     played: 0,
     loaded: 0,
     duration: 0,
     seeking:false
   });

 const handlePlayPause = function () {
 setPlayer({ ...player, playing: !player.playing });
};

const handleMuted = () => {
   setPlayer({ ...player, muted: !player.muted });
};

const handleSeekMouseDown = (e) => {
 setPlayer({ ...player, seeking: true });
};

const handleSeekChange = (e) => {
 setPlayer({ ...player, played: parseFloat(e.target.value) });
};

const handleSeekMouseUp = (e) => {
 setPlayer({ ...player, seeking: false });
 playerRef.seekTo(parseFloat(e.target.value));
};

const handleProgress = (state) => {
 if (!player.seeking) {
   setPlayer(state);
 }
};

return (
 <div
   className={`relative justify-center content-center w-full`}
  
 >
   <ReactPlayer
     ref={playerRef}
     className="absolute rounded"
     width="100%"
     height="100%"
     url={url}
     volume={1}
     playIcon={<></>}
     playing={player.playing}
     loop={true}
     muted={player.muted}
     onProgress={handleProgress}
   ></ReactPlayer>

   <div
     className={"absolute w-full h-full"}
     onClick={handlePlayPause}
   ></div>

   <div>
     <input
       type="range"
       min={0}
       max={0.999999}
       step="any"
       value={player.played}
       onMouseDown={handleSeekMouseDown}
       onChange={handleSeekChange}
       onMouseUp={handleSeekMouseUp}
     />
   </div>
 </div>
);
};
 
export default Player;

Even when I copy paste exact code from demo(https://github.com/cookpete/react-player/blob/master/src/demo/App.js), same error shows, I’m not sure why it happens 😦