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Cannot read property 'getHostNode' of null #8579

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feature request

What is the current behavior?
Cannot read property 'getHostNode' of null

What is the expected behavior?
An error message that tells me what is wrong so I know what to fix.

"react": "15.3.2"

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  1. gaearon commented on Dec 15, 2016

    @gaearon
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    Please see #8267.
    This usually means React is an inconsistent state caused by an earlier error in your code.
    If you don't see this error it might be because you have a catch block silently swallowing it.

    Related explanations: #7617 (comment), #4199 (comment).

    If you’re sure this is not the problem please provide a reproducing example.

  2. aweary commented on Dec 20, 2016

    @aweary
    Contributor

    Closing as there's been no update and it's likely related to #8267. @kevart if provide a case reproducing the issue we can look into re-opening it if its identified as a different issue.

  3. AjayU commented on May 31, 2017

    @AjayU

    Getting this error in IE. The build application works fine in mozilla and chrome. Moreover, the standalone express server app runs fine too in IE but the built js file using webpack and babel fails to navigate when used inside of a jsp file

  4. bhgames commented on Jun 6, 2017

    @bhgames

    Same here @AjayU

  5. bhgames commented on Jun 7, 2017

    @bhgames

    @AjayU I discovered it was because I was using for(let key of something) { } loops in my code. Apparently this isn't polyfilled properly. Replacing them with .map({})'s worked. Had nothing to do with react-router - it was just that was firing the render call that caused the error to happen.

  6. vTrip commented on Jun 19, 2017

    @vTrip

    this issue occurs for me specifically when using setState

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  8. gaearon commented on Jun 19, 2017

    @gaearon
    Contributor

    Please read this comment: #8579 (comment).
    When you see this issue without a descriptive error before it, your code is swallowing errors.

    I'm locking the issue because further comments will just confuse people googling it. The cause of this error is always another error that happened earlier (but that your code might have swallowed it).

  9. gaearon commented on Jul 27, 2017

    @gaearon
    Contributor

    A small update on this. We just released React 16 beta which shouldn’t emit cryptic errors like this one. Even if the application code swallows an error, React 16 will still print it to the console. It might be too early for you to try React 16 (since ecosystem is still preparing for it), but this error should never occur in the future after you switch to it.

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