Not getting callback after adding an event listener for scroll event in React.js

Question

I followed the instruction from this post Update style of a component onScroll in React.js to register event listener for scroll event.

I have a React component that ren

Answer 1

For me the only thing that worked was adding true to the third argument in the EventListener:

componentDidMount() {
  window.addEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll, true);
}

componentWillUnmount() {
  window.removeEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll, true);
}

Source: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/5042#issuecomment-145317519