reactjs - What is the TypeScript return type of a React stateless component?

Question

What would the return type be here?

const Foo
  : () => // ???
  = () => (
    <div>
      Foobar
    </div>
  )

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44133420/what-is-the-typescript-return-type-of-a-react-stateless-component

Answer 1

StatelessComponent type mentioned in this answer has been deprecated because after introducing the Hooks API they are not always stateless.

A function component is of type React.FunctionComponent and it has an alias React.FC to keep things nice and short.

It has one required property, a function, which will return a ReactElement or null. It has a few optional properties, such as propTypes, contextTypes, defaultProps and displayName.

Here's an example:

const MyFunctionComponent: React.FC = (): ReactElement => {
  return <div>Hello, I am a function component</div>
}

And here are the types from @types/react 16.8.24:

type FC<P = {}> = FunctionComponent<P>;

interface FunctionComponent<P = {}> {
    (props: PropsWithChildren<P>, context?: any): ReactElement | null;
    propTypes?: WeakValidationMap<P>;
    contextTypes?: ValidationMap<any>;
    defaultProps?: Partial<P>;
    displayName?: string;
}