Can't access props in react component using react on rails 7

I am rendering a react component form rails view like this. <%= react_component("BrandOnboarding", props: { brand: @brand }) %> but when I log this.props, I get an empty object.

I see the brand data in the dom but I can not access it in the react component.
What could be wrong?

@mradeybee your props are there. I suspect that you are not declaring your component properly.

@justin Thank you for replying. I am using the gem in a rails engine. We had to do some adjustments so as to make the react components accessible by the rails app in the first place.

in the engine’s assets.rb:

  • We changed this line Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'webpack') to Rails.application.config.assets.paths << InfluenshopFrontend::Engine.root.join("app", "assets", "javascripts") because we pushed the bundled JS file to the JavaScript folder.

in react_on_rails.rb :

  • We changed this config.generated_assets_dir = File.join(%w(app assets webpack)) to `config.generated_assets_dir = InfluenshopFrontend::Engine.root.join(“app”, “assets”, “javascripts”).

  • We also changed config.server_bundle_js_file = "webpack-bundle.js" to config.server_bundle_js_file = %w( webpack-bundle.js )

And I followed every step in this post.

Could any of the adjustments be responsible for not getting the props?

@mradeybee I’ve never done the Rails Engine parts.

My team is available to help you pair on this if you like.

Please see our Coaching Plan.

@mradeybee Please take good notes of what you discover and consider submitting a PR to the docs on using a Rails Engine to benefit the community.