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How to use getDerivedStateFromProps

See original GitHub issue

getDerivedStateFromProps is currently defined as member function without return, but should be a static function returning a state.

How do I use it?

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Created 5 years ago
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Hypnosphicommented, May 27, 2018

Looks like the above won’t work: Kotlin doesn’t attach companion object members directly to JS constructor. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-18891 may help in the future, but for now you need to do it by hand:

MyComponent::Class.js.asDynamic().getDerivedStateFromProps = ...

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Leonyacommented, May 27, 2018

Added some documentation.

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