Detect click outside React component

Question

I\'m looking for a way to detect if a click event happened outside of a component, as described in this article. jQuery closest() is used to see if the target from a click e

Answer 1

If you want to use a tiny component (466 Byte gzipped) that already exists for this functionality then you can check out this library react-outclick.

The good thing about the library is that it also lets you detect clicks outside of a component and inside of another. It also supports detecting other types of events.