Error Invariant Violation registerComponent Target container is not a DOM element

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I get this error after a making trivial React example page:

Uncaught Error: Invariant Violation: _registerComponent(...): Target container is not a DOM element.

Here's my code:

/** @jsx React.DOM */
'use strict';

var React = require('react');

var App = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return <h1>Yo</h1>;
  }
});

React.renderComponent(<App />, document.body);
HTML:

<html>
<head>
  <script src="/bundle.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

How to fix this error?

Jun 8, 2020 in Java-Script by kartik
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1 answer to this question.

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Hii @kartik,

Basically what you done is right, except you forget that JavaScript is sync in many cases, so you running the code before your DOM gets loaded, there are few ways to solve this:

1) Check to see if DOM fully loaded, then do whatever you want, you can listen to DOMContentLoaded for example:

<script>
  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
    console.log("DOM fully loaded and parsed");
  });
</script>


2) Very common way is adding the script tag to the bottom of your document (after body tag):

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
  <script src="/bundle.js"></script>
</html>


3) Using window.onload, which gets fired when the entire page loaded(img, etc)

window.addEventListener("load", function() {
  console.log("Everything is loaded");
});

4) Using document.onload, which gets fired when the DOM is ready:

document.addEventListener("load", function() {
  console.log("DOM is ready");
});

There are even more options to check if DOM is ready, but the short answer is DO NOT run any script before you make sure your DOM is ready in every cases.

answered Jun 8, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,880 points

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