# Disallow missing displayName in a React component definition (`react/display-name`)

💼 This rule is enabled in the ☑️ `recommended` [config](https://github.com/jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react/#shareable-configs).

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DisplayName allows you to name your component. This name is used by React in debugging messages.

## Rule Details

Examples of **incorrect** code for this rule:

```jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  render: function() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
});

const Hello = React.memo(({ a }) => {
  return <>{a}</>
})

export default ({ a }) => {
  return <>{a}</>
}
```

Examples of **correct** code for this rule:

```jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  displayName: 'Hello',
  render: function() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
});

const Hello = React.memo(function Hello({ a }) {
  return <>{a}</>
})
```

## Rule Options

```js
...
"react/display-name": [<enabled>, { "ignoreTranspilerName": <boolean>, "checkContextObjects": <boolean> }]
...
```

### `ignoreTranspilerName` (default: `false`)

When `true` the rule will ignore the name set by the transpiler and require a `displayName` property in this case.

Examples of **correct** code for `{ ignoreTranspilerName: true }` option:

```jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  displayName: 'Hello',

  render: function() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
});
module.exports = Hello;
```

```jsx
export default class Hello extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
}
Hello.displayName = 'Hello';
```

```jsx
export default function Hello({ name }) {
  return <div>Hello {name}</div>;
}
Hello.displayName = 'Hello';
```

Examples of **incorrect** code for `{ ignoreTranspilerName: true }` option:

```jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  render: function() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
});
module.exports = Hello;
```

```jsx
export default class Hello extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
}
```

```jsx
module.exports = createReactClass({
  render: function() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
});
```

```jsx
export default class extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
  }
}
```

```jsx
function HelloComponent() {
  return createReactClass({
    render: function() {
      return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
    }
  });
}
module.exports = HelloComponent();
```

### checkContextObjects (default: `false`)

`displayName` allows you to [name your context](https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html#contextdisplayname) object. This name is used in the React dev tools for the context's `Provider` and `Consumer`.
When `true` this rule will warn on context objects without a `displayName`.

Examples of **incorrect** code for this rule:

```jsx
const Hello = React.createContext();
```

```jsx
const Hello = createContext();
```

Examples of **correct** code for this rule:

```jsx
const Hello = React.createContext();
Hello.displayName = "HelloContext";
```

```jsx
const Hello = createContext();
Hello.displayName = "HelloContext";
```

## About component detection

For this rule to work we need to detect React components, this could be very hard since components could be declared in a lot of ways.

For now we should detect components created with:

- `createReactClass()`
- an ES6 class that inherit from `React.Component` or `Component`
- a stateless function that return JSX or the result of a `React.createElement` call.