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Application crashing bug: _this.alignRef.current.forceAlign() called when _this.alignRef.current is null

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start at Popup.js line 99, where forceAlign() is called on _this.alignRef.current, and inspect how that ref can be null. Reproduce the reported crash if possible and verify that the alignment path no longer crashes when the ref is unavailable.

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Description

I'm using the rc-tooltip package which has rc-trigger as a dependency. On certain occasions, and I don't know why, my application totally crashes because on line 99 of Popup.js, _this.alignRef.current.forceAlign() is called when _this.alignRef.current is null. I've hacked in an conditional check before making the call for now.

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