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No suitable component definition found for container component

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the reported JavaScript/React snippet and inspect the component-detection entry point that produces “No suitable component definition found.” Confirm that the container component is recognized despite React.memo, contextTypes, children, and renderStatus; done means the error no longer occurs and the component is extracted correctly.

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Description

component-detection improvement
type Props = {
    children: React.Element,
    renderStatus?: () => React.Element
};
function Test(props: Props, context) {
    if (context.show) {
        return props.renderStatus ? props.renderStatus() : null;
    }
    return props.children;
}

Test.contextTypes = {
    show: PropTypes.bool
};
export default React.memo(Test)

output

 Error: No suitable component definition found.
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