I use React Helmet. I wanted to inject social meta tags in some of the pages. In order to DRY, I wanted to define these social meta tags as a separate component, which looks as below:

type SocialMetaProps = {
  title: string,
  description: string,
}

const SocialMeta = ({ title, description }: SocialMetaProps) => {
  return (
    <>
      <meta property="og:title" content={title} />
      <meta property="og:description" content={description} />
      <meta property="og:url" content={window.location.href} />

      <meta property="twitter:title" content={title} />
      <meta property="twitter:description" content={description} />
      <meta property="twitter:url" content={window.location.href} />
    </>
  )
}

export default SocialMeta

...which looks as such when I use it in a page:

<Helmet>
  <title>{resource.title}</title>
  <SocialMeta title={resource.title} description={resource.shortDescription} />
</Helmet>

The problem with that is that SocialMeta component does not render anything. I can confirm it by firing up browser console and doing document.head.getElementsByTagName("meta"). However, if I do it as below:

<Helmet>
  <title>{resource.title}</title>
  
  <meta property="og:title" content={resource.title} />
  <meta property="og:description" content={resource.shortDescription} />
  <meta property="og:url" content={window.location.href} />

  <meta property="twitter:title" content={resource.title} />
  <meta property="twitter:description" content={resource.shortDescription} />
  <meta property="twitter:url" content={window.location.href} />
</Helmet>

...it naturally renders the tags.

My best guess is that Helmet does not unpack <></>. Is there a way to render a custom component inside Helmet component?

Thanks in advance.

Environment

• Vite
• Typescript
• React ^18.2.0
• Helmet ^6.1.0
• React Router (DOM) ^6.20.1 (if relevant)

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altogether and instead use "legacy" modals built with carefully styled <div>s. But then I give up on many of the nice features of <dialog>, such as tab focus containment and accessibility.

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Using react router and have a route definition:

  {
       path: '/',
       element: <Root pageTitle={pageTitle} />,
       errorElement: <ErrorPage setPageTitle={updatePageTitle} />,
       children: [
          ...
          {
             path: '*',
             element: <ErrorPage setPageTitle={updatePageTitle} />,
             loader: async () => {
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             },
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This shows me 404 page how I want but without the rest of the root element but also the http status is reported as 200. How do I properly throw it as a 404 and show it inside root element?

Using react router and have a route definition:

  {
       path: '/',
       element: <Root pageTitle={pageTitle} />,
       errorElement: <ErrorPage setPageTitle={updatePageTitle} />,
       children: [
          ...
          {
             path: '*',
             element: <ErrorPage setPageTitle={updatePageTitle} />,
             loader: async () => {
                console.log('throwing a 404');
                throw new Response('Not Found', { status: 404 });
             },
          },
       ],
    },

This does show me the 404 page how I want, but http status is reported as 200. How do I properly throw it as a 404?

It seems not to trigger the loader (console log does not appear), or is there another method to throw a 404 and show a pretty page?

I haven't had a need for suspense, I use react query without suspense just using the data, error, isLoading etc state directly. And I don't see Suspens as a simpler pattern necessarily. What does it get you that other patterns don't? I'm curious to know your use cases!

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I'm usually a backend dev, but have been playing with React. I'm really interested in React Native and would love some guidance, tips, tutorials, etc.

RTK Query Loader lets you create loaders for your React components.

const loader = createLoader({
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    const [name, setName] = useState("charizard");
    const debouncedName = useDebounce(name, 200);
    const pokemon = useGetPokemon(debouncedName);
    return {
      queries: {
        pokemon,
      },
      payload: {
        name,
        setName,
      },
    };
  },
});

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  return (
    <div>
      <input
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        onChange={(e) => data.payload.setName(e.target.value)}
      />
      <div>AP: {data.queries.pokemon.data.ability_power}</div>
    </div>
  );
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React Context + useReducer - Still to this day my favorite way of managing global state in React, no extra dependencies, no learning curve, it's all there built-in

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