Can't perform a React state update on an unmounted component

Question

Problem

I am writing an application in React and was unable to avoid a super common pitfall, which is calling setState(...) after componentWillUnmount(...).

I looked very carefully at my code and tried to put some guarding clauses in place, but the problem persisted and I am still observing the warning.

Therefore, I've got two questions:

1. How do I figure out from the stack trace, which particular component and event handler or lifecycle hook is responsible for the rule violation?
2. Well, how to fix the problem itself, because my code was written with this pitfall in mind and is already trying to prevent it, but some underlying component's still generating the warning.

Browser console

Warning: Can't perform a React state update on an unmounted component.
This is a no-op, but it indicates a memory leak in your application.
To fix, cancel all subscriptions and asynchronous tasks in the componentWillUnmount
method.
    in TextLayerInternal (created by Context.Consumer)
    in TextLayer (created by PageInternal) index.js:1446
d/console[e]
index.js:1446
warningWithoutStack
react-dom.development.js:520
warnAboutUpdateOnUnmounted
react-dom.development.js:18238
scheduleWork
react-dom.development.js:19684
enqueueSetState
react-dom.development.js:12936
./node_modules/react/cjs/react.development.js/Component.prototype.setState
react.development.js:356
_callee$
TextLayer.js:97
tryCatch
runtime.js:63
invoke
runtime.js:282
defineIteratorMethods/</prototype[method]
runtime.js:116
asyncGeneratorStep
asyncToGenerator.js:3
_throw
asyncToGenerator.js:29

Code

Book.tsx

import { throttle } from 'lodash';
import * as React from 'react';
import { AutoWidthPdf } from '../shared/AutoWidthPdf';
import BookCommandPanel from '../shared/BookCommandPanel';
import BookTextPath from '../static/pdf/sde.pdf';
import './Book.css';

const DEFAULT_WIDTH = 140;

class Book extends React.Component {
  setDivSizeThrottleable: () => void;
  pdfWrapper: HTMLDivElement | null = null;
  isComponentMounted: boolean = false;
  state = {
    hidden: true,
    pdfWidth: DEFAULT_WIDTH,
  };

  constructor(props: any) {
    super(props);
    this.setDivSizeThrottleable = throttle(
      () => {
        if (this.isComponentMounted) {
          this.setState({
            pdfWidth: this.pdfWrapper!.getBoundingClientRect().width - 5,
          });
        }
      },
      500,
    );
  }

  componentDidMount = () => {
    this.isComponentMounted = true;
    this.setDivSizeThrottleable();
    window.addEventListener("resize", this.setDivSizeThrottleable);
  };

  componentWillUnmount = () => {
    this.isComponentMounted = false;
    window.removeEventListener("resize", this.setDivSizeThrottleable);
  };

  render = () => (
    <div className="Book">
      { this.state.hidden && <div className="Book__LoadNotification centered">Book is being loaded...</div> }

      <div className={this.getPdfContentContainerClassName()}>
        <BookCommandPanel
          bookTextPath={BookTextPath}
          />

        <div className="Book__PdfContent" ref={ref => this.pdfWrapper = ref}>
          <AutoWidthPdf
            file={BookTextPath}
            width={this.state.pdfWidth}
            onLoadSuccess={(_: any) => this.onDocumentComplete()}
            />
        </div>

        <BookCommandPanel
          bookTextPath={BookTextPath}
          />
      </div>
    </div>
  );

  getPdfContentContainerClassName = () => this.state.hidden ? 'hidden' : '';

  onDocumentComplete = () => {
    try {
      this.setState({ hidden: false });
      this.setDivSizeThrottleable();
    } catch (caughtError) {
      console.warn({ caughtError });
    }
  };
}

export default Book;

AutoWidthPdf.tsx

import * as React from 'react';
import { Document, Page, pdfjs } from 'react-pdf';

pdfjs.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = `//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdf.js/${pdfjs.version}/pdf.worker.js`;

interface IProps {
  file: string;
  width: number;
  onLoadSuccess: (pdf: any) => void;
}
export class AutoWidthPdf extends React.Component<IProps> {
  render = () => (
    <Document
      file={this.props.file}
      onLoadSuccess={(_: any) => this.props.onLoadSuccess(_)}
      >
      <Page
        pageNumber={1}
        width={this.props.width}
        />
    </Document>
  );
}

---

Update 1: Cancel throttleable function (still no luck)

const DEFAULT_WIDTH = 140;

class Book extends React.Component {
  setDivSizeThrottleable: ((() => void) & Cancelable) | undefined;
  pdfWrapper: HTMLDivElement | null = null;
  state = {
    hidden: true,
    pdfWidth: DEFAULT_WIDTH,
  };

  componentDidMount = () => {
    this.setDivSizeThrottleable = throttle(
      () => {
        this.setState({
          pdfWidth: this.pdfWrapper!.getBoundingClientRect().width - 5,
        });
      },
      500,
    );

    this.setDivSizeThrottleable();
    window.addEventListener("resize", this.setDivSizeThrottleable);
  };

  componentWillUnmount = () => {
    window.removeEventListener("resize", this.setDivSizeThrottleable!);
    this.setDivSizeThrottleable!.cancel();
    this.setDivSizeThrottleable = undefined;
  };

  render = () => (
    <div className="Book">
      { this.state.hidden && <div className="Book__LoadNotification centered">Book is being loaded...</div> }

      <div className={this.getPdfContentContainerClassName()}>
        <BookCommandPanel
          BookTextPath={BookTextPath}
          />

        <div className="Book__PdfContent" ref={ref => this.pdfWrapper = ref}>
          <AutoWidthPdf
            file={BookTextPath}
            width={this.state.pdfWidth}
            onLoadSuccess={(_: any) => this.onDocumentComplete()}
            />
        </div>

        <BookCommandPanel
          BookTextPath={BookTextPath}
          />
      </div>
    </div>
  );

  getPdfContentContainerClassName = () => this.state.hidden ? 'hidden' : '';

  onDocumentComplete = () => {
    try {
      this.setState({ hidden: false });
      this.setDivSizeThrottleable!();
    } catch (caughtError) {
      console.warn({ caughtError });
    }
  };
}

export default Book;

Answer 1

To remove - Can't perform a React state update on an unmounted component warning, use componentDidMount method under a condition and make false that condition on componentWillUnmount method. For example : -

class Home extends Component {
  _isMounted = false;

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      news: [],
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this._isMounted = true;

    ajaxVar
      .get('https://domain')
      .then(result => {
        if (this._isMounted) {
          this.setState({
            news: result.data.hits,
          });
        }
      });
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    this._isMounted = false;
  }

  render() {
    ...
  }
}