React: DevTools: Overlay stays after devtools are closed

[bvaughn]

1. Hover over a node so you see its bounding box over the page
2. Without moving your mouse, press Cmd-Opt-J to hide the devtools

Result: The overlay stays (even if you move your mouse or reopen React devtools!)

Expected: It disappears.

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Originally reported by @sophiebits via https://github.com/bvaughn/react-devtools-experimental/issues/296

[realalexhomer]

Mind if I fix this one?

[bvaughn]

It's all yours, @realalexhomer

Please let us know if you decide not to work on it so we can remove the "taken" label.

[realalexhomer]

hey sorry just saw this notification ill look at it today

[bvaughn]

Hi @realalexhomer, since it's been a couple of weeks without an update- I'm going to remove the "taken" label from this so someone else can claim it. If you decide to pick it back up, just let us know :)

[tferullo]

Hi @bvaughn I was interested in taking a stab at this so I followed the development instructions here:
https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/packages/react-devtools

and I'm getting an error when I run yarn or yarn start:backend from react-devtools-core

node version 12.10 -- should I downgrade?

[tferullo]

downgraded to 10.16.3. Same error.

[bvaughn]

Sorry about that. You'll need to run yarn build -- react,react-dom,react-is,scheduler --type=NODE in the main directory once first.

[tferullo]

sounds good, I'll try that tonight.

[halitogunc]

Is this still valid? I couldn't reproduce the issue.

[bvaughn]

Not sure. I wasn't the one who originally reported it. (I just migrated it from another repo.)

If you think it's no longer happening, we could close it. Can anyone else confirm?

[ivandevp]

I've tried to reproduce it and I can't see the error happening.

[bvaughn]

Okay. Let's close it for now and we can reopen if necessary. Thanks folks!

[sophiebits]

Confirmed this isn't an issue for me any more.