How to extend props for Material-UI components using Typescript?

Question

I would like to extend the props of the Button component from Material-UI using typescript to be able pass additional props to it's children.

import { NavLink } from 'react-router-dom';
import { Button } from 'material-ui';

<Button
  component={NavLink}

  // NavLink props that needs to be added to typescript declarations
  activeClassName={classes.activeButton}
  exact={true}
  to={to}
>
  {title}
</Button>

I've tried to add the following declarations in ./app/types/material_ui.d.ts:

declare module 'material-ui' {
  interface Button {
    activeClassName?: any;
    exact?: boolean;
    to?: string;
  }
}

Which throws the error "TS2693: 'Button' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here.".

I've also tried the declaration:

import * as React from 'react';

import { PropTypes, StyledComponent } from 'material-ui';
import { ButtonBaseProps } from 'material-ui/ButtonBase';

declare module 'material-ui' {
  export interface ButtonProps extends ButtonBaseProps {
    color?: PropTypes.Color | 'contrast';
    component?: React.ReactNode;
    dense?: boolean;
    disabled?: boolean;
    disableFocusRipple?: boolean;
    disableRipple?: boolean;
    fab?: boolean;
    href?: string;
    raised?: boolean;
    type?: string;

    activeClassName?: any;
    exact?: boolean;
    to?: string;
  }

  export class Button extends StyledComponent<ButtonProps> { }
}

Which throws the error "TS2323: Cannot redeclare exported variable 'Button'".

My tsconfig.json looks like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    ...
    "paths": {      
      "history": ["./node_modules/@types/history/index"],
      "redux": ["./node_modules/@types/redux/index"],
      "react": ["./node_modules/@types/react/index"],
      "*": ["./app/types/*", "*"]
    },
  },
  ...
}

Finally the original type definition from Material-UI:

import * as React from 'react';
import { StyledComponent, PropTypes } from '..';
import { ButtonBaseProps } from '../ButtonBase';

export interface ButtonProps extends ButtonBaseProps {
  color?: PropTypes.Color | 'contrast';
  component?: React.ReactNode;
  dense?: boolean;
  disabled?: boolean;
  disableFocusRipple?: boolean;
  disableRipple?: boolean;
  fab?: boolean;
  href?: string;
  raised?: boolean;
  type?: string;
}

export default class Button extends StyledComponent<ButtonProps> {}

I am using material-ui 1.0.0-beta.8 with react 15.6.1, react-router-dom 4.2.2 and typescript 2.5.2.

Answer 1

The following code works for me

import { Button, StyledComponent } from 'material-ui';
import { ButtonProps } from 'material-ui/Button';

declare module 'material-ui' {
  export interface MyProps {

    exact?: boolean;
    to?: string;
  }
  export class Button extends StyledComponent<ButtonProps & MyProps> {
  }

}

I don't have the problem with "TS2693: 'Button' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here. and I'm also using Typescript 2.5.2

Answer 2

import React, { FC } from 'react';

import { Button, ButtonProps } from '@material-ui/core';

interface IProps extends ButtonProps {} // your custom props

const ButtonHco: FC<IProps> = ({
  variant,
  color,
  children,
  size,
  disabled
}) => {
  return (
    <Button variant={variant} color={color} size={size} disabled={disabled}>
      {children}
    </Button>
  );
};

export default ButtonHco;

Answer 3

Here is a minimalistic sample of extending a Material UI Button (untested). The extended field will be simply appended after the button label.

import * as React from 'react';
import { ButtonProps } from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { Button } from '@material-ui/core';

interface Props{
  extendedField: string;
}

export class MyExtendedButton extends React.Component<ButtonProps & Props>{
  render(){

    const {
      extendedField,
      children,
      ...buttonProps,
    } = this.props;

    return (<Button {...buttonProps}>
      {children}
      : <span style={{color: 'red'}}>
        {extendedField}
      </span>
    </Button>);
  }
}

Answer 4

A bit late, but here is another solution. See also the MUI docs Usage of component prop . The following button uses the Link component. It allso uses the Link's specific props with their types. It allso adds its own sesific props.

import React from 'react'
import MuiButton, {ButtonProps} from '@material-ui/core/Button'

interface ButtonOptions {
    // your custom options with their types
  }

const Button = <C extends React.ElementType>(props: ButtonProps<C, {component?: C}> & ButtonOptions ) => {
  return <MuiButton {...props}>{props.children}</MuiButton>
}

export default Button
 
// use like this:  
import {Link} from 'react-router-dom'
<Button component={Link} to={'/somelocation'}>