Fix Uncaught Error Objects are not valid as a React child

This error might happen because you’ve got a React component and you’re rendering a prop in the JSX, like this, but you forgot to destructure the prop when initializing the component parameters:

function MyComponent(test) {
  return <p>{test}</p>
}

You should do this instead:

function MyComponent({ test }) {
  return <p>{test}</p>
}

The component receives a props object and we commonly use object destructuring to get the props “mapped” to variables, like {test} in our example.

The same error appears whenever JSX receives a plain object:

const user = { name: 'Flavio' }

return <p>{user}</p> // error

Render a property instead:

return <p>{user.name}</p>

For an array of objects, use map() and return an element with a stable key. JSON.stringify(value) can be useful while debugging, but it is rarely the right user interface.

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