React: Bug: React 17 upgrade causes "Cannot read property 'removeEventListener' of null"

Created on 22 Oct 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: facebook/react

We have upgraded to React 17 and since then we get Cannot read property 'removeEventListener' of null.
Mostly happens when component updates after state change.

React version: 17

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Upgrade to React 17
  2. Change page

The current behavior

Screenshot 2020-10-22 at 17 34 02

The expected behavior

No error

Unconfirmed
Source
picture greggailly

Most helpful comment

Could it be this?
https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html#potential-issues

picture gaearon on 22 Oct 2020
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馃憢Could you please share a reproducible example on https://codesandbox.io or as a repo?

kachkaev picture kachkaev on 22 Oct 2020

Could it be this?
https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html#potential-issues

gaearon picture gaearon on 22 Oct 2020
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Probably ! Unfortunately seems to be coming from a library so we will check with them to fix this.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers

greggailly picture greggailly on 23 Oct 2020

We had the same issue, can confirm it came from rc-virtual-list which is an Ant Design Select dependency.
We resolved it by using rc-virtual-list 3.2.0

liadb picture liadb on 17 Nov 2020
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