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Need to check whether element is instance of Element or not?

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reading src/index.tsx at line 71 and trace how the element is passed to ResizeObserver.observe. Reproduce the reported error with a non-Element value and inspect the surrounding component behavior. Done means the reported invalid-element case is handled without the ResizeObserver type error, with the expected behavior confirmed.

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Description

https://github.com/react-component/resize-observer/blob/73473bd71e84898fb94b130ec32f3cb6a7216d03/src/index.tsx#L71

Currently, error occurred when element is not an instance of Element:

'observe' on 'ResizeObserver': parameter 1 is not of type 'Element'.

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JavaScript
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