Preact-cli: Async component mounted/shown twice at same time

[shalomvolchok]

I've been working with the preact-cli material template and it seems that a call to setState from within handleRoute of app.js causes the async wrapper's componentWillMount to fire twice, resulting in the async component being duplicated on the screen. (next branch 3.0.0-next.14, but also observed in v2).

This behavior can be seen with npm run serve after running preact-cli create material demo, but the page needs to be scrolled to notice the duplication (I didn’t notice for some time).

I also have a stripped down repo that minimally reproduces the behavior (without the router nor material design): https://github.com/shalomvolchok/async-route-duplication

In the stripped down repo the behavior is triggered by calling setState from componentDidMount (in any component higher than the async component).

I had to dig for a while before I figured out where the double rendering was coming from, but it’s still not clear to me what the right solution would be to avoid/fix this. What do you all think?

[prateekbh]

cc @developit i am not sure if this should be fixed in the template or the async wrapper

[jjperezaguinaga]

Just to mention that I'm facing the same issue, going to poke around to see what are the best steps to avoid this.

[shalomvolchok]

A quick temporary hack

setTimeout(()=>{this.setState({/*...*/}},0)

[jjperezaguinaga]

Can confirm @shalomvolchok solution works, modifying the default app.js with the following solves the issue for now:

handleRoute = e => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    this.setState({
       currentUrl: e.url
    })
  }, 0)
};

[prateekbh]

I personally don't think we should be doing this hack, @developit can u check?

[prateekbh]

cc: @lukeed

[developit]

the bit that causes the duplication is pretty important, it prevents the first client-side render from ripping out the prerendered DOM. Looks like we just need to synchronously flush via forceUpdate instead of setState.

[jjperezaguinaga]

👋 just wanted to share that sadly the hack isn't really working as I thought, and keep getting the issue whenever I prerender it with preact build. Any suggestion on how to be able to serve a preact-cli app statically without having the same component twice.

[jjperezaguinaga]

@developit @ForsakenHarmony could I get more information on what do you think it's causing the issue here or some pointers on where to look? Maybe I can do some work on my own to solve this, as my current site still has this issue and haven't been able to work around it 😢

[pragmatech]

My preact-cli material template on Netlify renders duplicate divs as well. The said hack sort of ameliorated this on chrome -- not firefox. Is ditching the material goodies the best way to proceed at this point?

[ForsakenHarmony]

The problem is or async component, more specifically the dangerousSetInnerHtml

It's a workaround for a flash of no content

Not sure why it would happen for prerendering though

[lucie-macikova]

Hi, any update on this?
The hack is not really working and at the moment which means the production build can't be published.

Is there any way around this? And I mean anything that would allow me to publish this even if that has some downsides?

[ForsakenHarmony]

well you can rename routes to anything else and it won't auto async it

[mfbx9da4]

I followed @ForsakenHarmony's advice and renamed the routes directory? Code splitting is disabled but at least it works! 🎉

[TheNando]

I ended up just turning off pre-rendering in my build until this is resolved. Not ideal, but it is better than the dupe.

// In package.json
  "build": "preact build --no-prerender",

[prateekbh]

@developit has a Suspense based fix for this.
Will wait for his PR

[developit]

The confusing part is that folks are seeing this in Preact 8. My fix is specific to Preact X.

[Pierre-Gilles]

I'm on Preact X and I think I have the same problem (not sure)

When I develop, after a few changes, my routes are duplicated (all of them). Just force-refreshing the page fix it

preact: 10.3.2
preact-router 3.2.1
preact-cli: 2.2.1

[ForsakenHarmony]

@Pierre-Gilles preact-cli v2 is not really compatible with preact v10

But we still haven't gotten code splitting to work for preact 10 in cli@rc

[Pierre-Gilles]

@ForsakenHarmony Oh I didn't know, thanks !

Any idea of a fix while waiting for preact-cli v3 ?

[ForsakenHarmony]

cli@rc should be usable in it's current form, if you don't need async loading it could work for you