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Error: No suitable component definition found using "export default ({}) => ..."

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the supplied export syntax with react-docgen v2 and v3.0.0-beta12, then compare it with the class export that succeeds. Trace the component-definition detection for the arrow-function form; done means the reported syntax is handled without the error and the behavior is covered by a regression test.

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Description

Following code reports Error: "No suitable component definition found using"

export default ({ SomeComponent }) =>
  class Button extends Component {
    static propTypes = {
      label: PropTypes.string
    };

    render() {
      return <SomeComponent />;
    }
  };

Removing arrow fn and options solves it:

export default
  class Button extends Component {
    static propTypes = {
      label: PropTypes.string
    };

    render() {
      return <SomeComponent />;
    }
}

Any solution?

Using: react-docgen@v2 and react-docgen@v3.0.0-beta12

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