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Null missing as a type for value and defaultValue props

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the TypeScript definitions for the value and defaultValue props, then inspect the existing handling referenced by PR #447. Update the prop types so null is accepted for both props and verify that TypeScript no longer reports an error while the existing runtime behavior remains unchanged.

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Description

value and defaultValue props accept null as a value (PR #447) but they're typed as only accepting numbers. Typescript throws a type error if you try to pass null, even though it works otherwise properly.

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