Question

Will react context work with mendix pluggable widgets?

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I have two mendix widgets, a container and a widget that goes inside it. The container widget creates a react context and I am unable to access the context from the widget that is contained. Is this how mendix works? Is there any work around?

asked 2021-05-22

Anudeep Reddy Chattu

3 answers

Quang Nhat Tran · Answer 1 · 2021-05-23

Why not merge 2 widgets in one(just defined different xml package file), and then you can use react hook context.

Ryan Saunderson · Answer 2 · 2023-10-12

I hope Mendix can comment on what their plans are for this long term. Right now they're using true global state for context.

https://github.com/mendix/web-widgets/blob/main/packages/shared/widget-plugin-filtering/src/provider.ts#L73

Ivo Sturm · Answer 3 · 2023-10-13

Dit you have a look at the component type 'widget' that can be fed as a child to your widget? See: https://docs.mendix.com/apidocs-mxsdk/apidocs/pluggable-widgets-property-types/#widgets

I implemented this feature in the Google Maps Custom Marker React widget; the infowindow popup on Google Maps is an actual Mendix dataview that can be fully styled in Studio Pro and then is accessible in the widget to show as a popup.