What is the Flow equivalent of React.PropTypes.node (i.e., anything that can be rendered by React, if there is one? Do I have to create it myself as a union type?

In other words, what would replace ??? here?

type Props = {
  children: ???,
}

const UselessComponent
  : (props: Props) => React$Element<*>
  = ({ children }) => (
    <div>
      {children}
    </div>
  )

UselessComponent.propTypes = {
  children: React.PropTypes.node.isRequired,
}

What is the Flow equivalent of React.PropTypes.node (i.e., anything that can be rendered by React, if there is one? Do I have to create it myself as a union type?

In other words, what would replace ??? here?

type Props = {
  children: ???,
}

const UselessComponent
  : (props: Props) => React$Element<*>
  = ({ children }) => (
    <div>
      {children}
    </div>
  )

UselessComponent.propTypes = {
  children: React.PropTypes.node.isRequired,
}

• javascript
• reactjs
• types
• flowtype

2 Answers 2

It looks like it is still an issue here.

According to the discussion in that issue, what you should do until it is fixed:

type Props = {
  children?: React.Element<*>,
};

For versions of flow >= 0.53, use the new type React.Node for props.children and anywhere you are expecting a renderable node.

The definition of React.Node can be roughly approximated with a React.ChildrenArray:

type Node = React.ChildrenArray<void | null | boolean | string |
number | React.Element<any>>;

There was a major rework of the react types in flow 0.53. Summary of the changes and instructions on how to migrate are in the release notes. The flow docs explain how to use in detail.

For example:

import type { Node } from 'react';

type Props = {
  input?: Node,
}