I have recently installed Material UI into my Meteor application using npm install --save material ui

I have gotten the <Header /> component showing up in my app.js file, but whenever I add other components, localhost:3000 simply displays a blank page. Please see my code below:

header.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import AppBar from 'material-ui/AppBar';

class Header extends Component {
  render() {
    return(
      <AppBar
        title="Header"
        titleStyle={{textAlign: "center"}}
        showMenuIconButton={false}
      /> 
   );
  }
}

export default Header;

app.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';

import Header from './components/header'; 
import NewPost from './components/new_post';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>
      <Header />
    </MuiThemeProvider>
  );  
};

Meteor.startup(() => {
  ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.render-target'));
});

THE ABOVE CODE WORKS WELL (see screenshot below)

However, if I add another component I get a blank screen

header.js is the same

new_post.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import TextField from 'material-ui/TextField';

class NewPost extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <TextField
      hintText="Full width"
      fullWidth={true}
      />
    );
  }
}

export default NewPost;

app.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';

import Header from './components/header'; 
import NewPost from './components/new_post';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>
      <Header />
      <NewPost />
    </MuiThemeProvider>
  );  
};

Meteor.startup(() => {
  ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.render-target'));
});

The result is simply a blank screen

Why does adding one more component (<NewPost />)inside of <MuiThemeProvider> result in a blank screen? I referred to the material-ui documentation and their sample projects but their application structure is not similar to mine. Any advice? Please let me know if you need more info to make this question clearer.

I have recently installed Material UI into my Meteor application using npm install --save material ui

I have gotten the <Header /> component showing up in my app.js file, but whenever I add other components, localhost:3000 simply displays a blank page. Please see my code below:

header.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import AppBar from 'material-ui/AppBar';

class Header extends Component {
  render() {
    return(
      <AppBar
        title="Header"
        titleStyle={{textAlign: "center"}}
        showMenuIconButton={false}
      /> 
   );
  }
}

export default Header;

app.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';

import Header from './components/header'; 
import NewPost from './components/new_post';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>
      <Header />
    </MuiThemeProvider>
  );  
};

Meteor.startup(() => {
  ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.render-target'));
});

THE ABOVE CODE WORKS WELL (see screenshot below)

However, if I add another component I get a blank screen

header.js is the same

new_post.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import TextField from 'material-ui/TextField';

class NewPost extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <TextField
      hintText="Full width"
      fullWidth={true}
      />
    );
  }
}

export default NewPost;

app.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';

import Header from './components/header'; 
import NewPost from './components/new_post';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider>
      <Header />
      <NewPost />
    </MuiThemeProvider>
  );  
};

Meteor.startup(() => {
  ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.render-target'));
});

The result is simply a blank screen

Why does adding one more component (<NewPost />)inside of <MuiThemeProvider> result in a blank screen? I referred to the material-ui documentation and their sample projects but their application structure is not similar to mine. Any advice? Please let me know if you need more info to make this question clearer.

• javascript
• meteor
• material-ui

3 Answers 3

Wow very strange but I managed to get it working by simply adding a <div>

app.js

const App = () => {
  return (
    <MuiThemeProvider muiTheme={getMuiTheme()}>
      <div>
        <Header />
        <NewPost />
      </div>
    </MuiThemeProvider>
  );  
}
Meteor.startup(() => {
  ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.render-target'));
});

I would really appreciate if anyone could explain why adding a div makes this all work. Thank you!

I would really appreciate if anyone could explain why adding a div makes this all work

If you look at the browser warning, "Invalid prop children of type array supplied to MuiThemeProvider, expected a single ReactElement.".

So, when you add a <div/> around your components, it wraps them together and turns them into a single react element.

MuiThemeProvider renders as null so you have to wrap children do anything - for example React.Fragment