React: Have a return statement but "Nothing was returned from render. This usually means a return statement is missing"

Question

I have a component that I'm currently trying to render. I put a return statement but I am still displaying an error.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import moment from 'moment';
import {FaSpaceShuttle} from 'react-icons/fa';

export const TaskDate = ({ setTaskDate, showTaskDate, setShowTaskDate }) => {

  return (
  showTaskDate && (
    <div className="task-date" data-testid="task-date-overlay">
      <ul className="task-date__list">
        <li>
          <div
            onClick={() => {
              setShowTaskDate(false);
              setTaskDate(moment().format('DD/MM/YYYY'));
            }}

          >
            <span>
              <FaSpaceShuttle />
            </span>
            <span>Today</span>
          </div>
        </li>
       
      </ul>
    </div>
    )
  );
};

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

The problem is that when showTaskDate is undefined you don't render anything, you simply return undefined.

You can change your return to use conditionals and return null to render nothing if there is no showTaskDate set.

export const TaskDate = ({ setTaskDate, showTaskDate, setShowTaskDate }) => {
  return (
    showTaskDate ? (
      <div className="task-date" data-testid="task-date-overlay">
        <ul className="task-date__list">
         ...
        </ul>
      </div>
    ) : null
  );
};