Debugging a Problem with an OnClick Event in React.js
Here is a problem that I had today, and how I solved it.
2 min readAug 28, 2020
A handleClick event wasn’t behaving like I expected it to behave. I replaced everything inside it with a console.log to make it easier to tell what was going on.
When the component loaded, the event fired many times.
This indicated to me that the function was being run many times when the component was loaded.
If the function was not running at all, I would have put thiss on things until it worked. Because it was running too many times, I removed () s until it worked.
Now it only poop s when I click on the div. Success.
What are your best tips and tricks for debugging React?
