React + Material-UI - Warning: Prop className did not match

Question

I'm having difficulty with differences between client-side and server-side rendering of styles in Material-UI components due to classNames being assigned differently.

The classNames are assigned correctly on first loading the page, but after refreshing the page, the classNames no longer match so the component loses its styling. This is the error message I am receiving on the Console:

Warning: Prop className did not match. Server: "MuiFormControl-root-3 MuiFormControl-marginNormal-4 SearchBar-textField-31" Client: "MuiFormControl-root-3 MuiFormControl-marginNormal-4 SearchBar-textField-2"

I've followed the Material-UI TextField example docs, and their accompanying Code Sandbox example, but I can't seem to figure out what is causing the difference between the server and client classNames.

I experienced a similar issue when adding Material-UI Chips with a delete 'x' icon. The 'x' icon rendered with a monstrous 1024px width after refreshing. The same underlying issue being that icon was not receiving the correct class for styling.

There are a few questions on Stack Overflow addressing why the client and server might render classNames differently (e.g. need to upgrade to @Material-UI/core version ^1.0.0, using a custom server.js, and using Math.random in setState), but none of these apply in my case.

I don't know enough to tell whether this Github discussion might help, but likely not since they were using a beta version of Material-UI.

Minimal steps to reproduce:

Create project folder and start Node server:

mkdir app
cd app
npm init -y
npm install react react-dom next @material-ui/core
npm run dev

edit package.json:

Add to 'scripts': "dev": "next",

app/pages/index.jsx:

import Head from "next/head"
import CssBaseline from "@material-ui/core/CssBaseline"
import SearchBar from "../components/SearchBar"

const Index = () => (
  <React.Fragment>
    <Head>
      <link
        rel="stylesheet"
        href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500"
      />
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
      <meta charSet="utf-8" />
    </Head>
    <CssBaseline />
    <SearchBar />
  </React.Fragment>
)

export default Index

app/components/SearchBar.jsx:

import PropTypes from "prop-types"
import { withStyles } from "@material-ui/core/styles"
import TextField from "@material-ui/core/TextField"

const styles = (theme) => ({
  container: {
    display: "flex",
    flexWrap: "wrap",
  },
  textField: {
    margin: theme.spacing.unit / 2,
    width: 200,
    border: "2px solid red",
  },
})

class SearchBar extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = { value: "" }
    this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this)
    this.handleSubmit = this.handleSubmit.bind(this)
  }

  handleChange(event) {
    this.setState({ value: event.target.value })
  }

  handleSubmit(event) {
    event.preventDefault()
  }

  render() {
    const { classes } = this.props
    return (
      <form
        className={classes.container}
        noValidate
        autoComplete="off"
        onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}
      >
        <TextField
          id="search"
          label="Search"
          type="search"
          placeholder="Search..."
          className={classes.textField}
          value={this.state.value}
          onChange={this.handleChange}
          margin="normal"
        />
      </form>
    )
  }
}

SearchBar.propTypes = {
  classes: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
}

export default withStyles(styles)(SearchBar)

Visit page in browser localhost:3000 and see this:

red border around TextField component

Refresh the browser and see this:

TextField component's styles are gone

Notice that the red border around TextField disappears.

Relevant Libs:

"react": 16.4.0
"react-dom": 16.4.0
"next": 6.0.3
"@material-ui/core": 1.2.0

@DhanaKrishnasamy - yes, these MUI docs explain what to do to fix the issue. I'm pretty new to web dev so I didn't understand the MUI docs. I ended up following the first chapter of builderbook to integrate client and server rendering of MUI. Note that you can view the builderbook code on github for free - I ended up buying the book which cost me $20 and followed the instructions (this saved me at least a day, maybe more). — David

Leonel Sanches da Silva Leonel Sanches da Silva · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-12T22:50:03

The problem is the SSR rendering in Next.js, which produces the style fragment before the page is rendered.

Using Material UI and Next.js (as the author is using), adding a file called _document.js solved the problem.

Adjusted _document.js (as suggested here):

import React from 'react';
import Document, { Html, Head, Main, NextScript } from 'next/document';
import { ServerStyleSheets } from '@material-ui/styles'; // works with @material-ui/core/styles, if you prefer to use it.
import theme from '../src/theme'; // Adjust here as well

export default class MyDocument extends Document {
  render() {
    return (
      <Html lang="en">
        <Head>
          {/* Not exactly required, but this is the PWA primary color */}
          <meta name="theme-color" content={theme.palette.primary.main} />
        </Head>
        <body>
          <Main />
          <NextScript />
        </body>
      </Html>
    );
  }
}

// `getInitialProps` belongs to `_document` (instead of `_app`),
// it's compatible with server-side generation (SSG).
MyDocument.getInitialProps = async (ctx) => {
  // Resolution order
  //
  // On the server:
  // 1. app.getInitialProps
  // 2. page.getInitialProps
  // 3. document.getInitialProps
  // 4. app.render
  // 5. page.render
  // 6. document.render
  //
  // On the server with error:
  // 1. document.getInitialProps
  // 2. app.render
  // 3. page.render
  // 4. document.render
  //
  // On the client
  // 1. app.getInitialProps
  // 2. page.getInitialProps
  // 3. app.render
  // 4. page.render

  // Render app and page and get the context of the page with collected side effects.
  const sheets = new ServerStyleSheets();
  const originalRenderPage = ctx.renderPage;

  ctx.renderPage = () =>
    originalRenderPage({
      enhanceApp: (App) => (props) => sheets.collect(<App {...props} />),
    });

  const initialProps = await Document.getInitialProps(ctx);

  return {
    ...initialProps,
    // Styles fragment is rendered after the app and page rendering finish.
    styles: [...React.Children.toArray(initialProps.styles), sheets.getStyleElement()],
  };
};