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React docgen issue with react styleguidist

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the provided src/components/Inputs/Table/Table.js example and the reported “Plugin/Preset files are not allowed to export objects” warning. Reproduce the parsing failure in the component-library setup, then verify that the component’s props and methods are extracted and displayed without the warning.

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Description

Getting an error while creating a component library :

Warning: Cannot parse src/components/Inputs/Table/Table.js: Error: Plugin/Preset files are not allowed to export objects, only functions.

Table.js :

import React from 'react';
import { css } from 'emotion';

import './table.scss';

const tableCss = css border: 1px solid black; font-size: 20px; ;
const Table = ({

}) => {
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); }

export default Table;

I need to display props and methods on the component library.

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