What is the type of the "children" prop?

🔎 Understanding the Issue

The error you're encountering is related to the type of the children prop in the components.

The children prop is a special prop that allows you to include arbitrary components or content within a component. In this case, both the Aux and Layout components have a prop called children of type React.ReactNode.

However, the error message suggests that the ReactNode type is not assignable to a constructor function for JSX elements. This indicates that the React.ReactNode type is not the correct type for the children prop.

🛠️ Solving the Problem

To type the children prop correctly, you need to update the type from React.ReactNode to React.ReactElement.

The React.ReactElement type represents a JSX element, allowing you to specify that the prop should accept valid JSX elements as children.

Here are the updated component definitions:

import * as React from 'react';

export interface AuxProps {
  children: React.ReactElement | React.ReactElement[];
}

const Aux = (props: AuxProps) => props.children;

export default Aux;
import * as React from 'react';
import Aux, { AuxProps } from './Aux';

export interface LayoutProps {
  children: React.ReactElement<Aux> | React.ReactElement<Aux>[];
}

const Layout = (props: LayoutProps) => (
  <Aux>
    <div>Toolbar, SideDrawer, Backdrop</div>
    <main>{props.children}</main>
  </Aux>
);

export default Layout;

With these updates, the children prop in both components accepts a single JSX element or an array of JSX elements, ensuring correct typing and resolving the error.

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