How to programmatically clear/reset React-Select?

Question

ReactSelect V2 and V3 seems to have several props like clearValue, resetValue and setValue. Whatever I'm trying, I'm not able to clear the selections programmatically. resetValue seems not to be accessible from the outside.

selectRef.setValue([], 'clear')
// or
selectRef.clearValue()

This does not clear the current selection.

Do I miss something here or is it not fully implemented yet?

Answer 1

I came across this problem myself and managed to fix it by passing a key to the React-Select component, with the selected value appended to it. This will then force the ReactSelect to re-render itself when the selection is updated.

I hope this helps someone.

import ReactSelect from 'react-select';

...

<ReactSelect
  key={`my_unique_select_key__${selected}`}
  value={selected || ''}
  ...
/>