Fiber cannot render to DocumentFragment/ShadowRoot

[Hotell]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug

What is the current behavior?
React 15.x was able to render within a DocumentFragment/shadowRoot, not possible with Fiber anymore

DEMO

https://www.webpackbin.com/bins/-KvPFG7-HGfQ34IgUxQt

import React, {Component} from 'react'
import {render} from 'react-dom'


class MyComponent extends Component{
  render(){
    return <div>Hello From React !</div>
  }
}

class MyElement extends HTMLElement {
  static is = 'my-element'
  constructor(){
    super()
    const shadowRoot = this.attachShadow({mode:'open'})
    try {
      // this fails 
      render(<MyComponent/>, shadowRoot)
    } catch (e){
      console.error(e)
      shadowRoot.innerHTML = `
        <div style="color:red;">${e}</div>
        <div>see console log for stack trace</div>
       `
    }
  }
  connectedCallback(){
    console.log('MyElement mounted!')
  }
}

customElements.define(MyElement.is, MyElement)

related -> skatejs/renderer-react#3

What is the expected behavior?
be able to render to shadow root like previous versions of React

Which versions of React, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of React?
React 16
Chrome

[gurkerl83]

Hi, I have determined the same issue a few days ago.

This might be related to

Wildhoney/Keo#37

The second note describes a fix to this problem. The method is getRootHostContext(rootContainerInstance) in the ReactFiberReconciler. If you apply this fix in the source and recompile, you will get another warning which says

Warning: validateDOMNesting(...):

cannot appear as a child of <#document>.

This issue needs more investigation, but the application itself should work on shadow-dom.

Thanks,
Markus

[gaearon]

I have a fix in #11037.

[gaearon]

Note: there are more places in the source where we compare to DOCUMENT_NODE. Should we compare to DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE for them too? Do you want to do an audit and check all these cases?

[Hotell]

Fix looks good @gaearon ! thx for super fast response :)

Note: there are more places in the source where we compare to DOCUMENT_NODE. Should we compare to DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE for them too? Do you want to do an audit and check all these cases?

I think this check within getRootHostContext should be enough for WebComponents

[Hotell]

maybe also adding addition test for <template/> tag ?

const template = document.createElement('template')
template.innerHTML = `<div>Render here</div>`

const templateInstance = template.content.cloneNode(true)
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(HelloWorld), templateInstance);

[gaearon]

Would you like to contribute to the fixture I added? You can send a PR against my fork branch. You know more about web components than I do :-)

[gurkerl83]

Hi, the mentioned warning validateDOMNesting did only occur with the development bundle. I did forget to activate NODE_ENV = 'production'.

Which tags to cover in a test might be a discussion for a dedicated thread because not only the tag but also the tag was introduced in the shadow DOM with V1.

[gaearon]

I fixed the warning too.

[Hotell]

Would you like to contribute to the fixture I added? You can send a PR against my fork branch. You know more about web components than I do :-)

huh I was AFK, next time sure ! thanks again @gaearon ! much appreciated 👍

[gaearon]

React 16.1.0-beta has been released. Please update react, react-dom, and react-test-renderer (if you use it) to this version and let us know if it solved the issue! We’d appreciate if you could test before Monday when we plan to get 16.1.0 out.

[guillaumesoldera]

With 16.1.0-beta, render into document fragment works for me! Thanks!

[Hotell]

I am more than happy to confirm that with 16.1.0-beta everything works! thanks a lot @gaearon much appreciated. Cheers