check-the-type-of-a-child-component.md

Check The Type Of A Child Component

There is a simple way to check the type of a child component.

import React from 'react';

const Hello = () => <h1>Hello</h1>;

const Greeting = ({ children }) => {
  let hello;
  React.Children.forEach(children, child => {
    if(child.type === Hello) {
      hello = child;
    }
  });

  return hello;
};

This is a comparison of the child's type to the component constant we are looking for.

This comparison is not the most robust. For instance, Gatsby does something internally that throws off this comparison. Here is a more robust comparison.

if(child.type === Hello || child.type === <Hello />.type)

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