javascript - React.js - input losing focus when rerendering

Question

I am just writing to text input and in onChange event I call setState, so React re-renders my UI. The problem is that the text input always loses focus, so I need to focus it again for each letter :D.

var EditorContainer = React.createClass({

    componentDidMount: function () {
        $(this.getDOMNode()).slimScroll({height: this.props.height, distance: '4px', size: '8px'});
    },

    componentDidUpdate: function () {
        console.log("zde");
        $(this.getDOMNode()).slimScroll({destroy: true}).slimScroll({height: 'auto', distance: '4px', size: '8px'});
    },

    changeSelectedComponentName: function (e) {
        //this.props.editor.selectedComponent.name = $(e.target).val();
        this.props.editor.forceUpdate();
    },

    render: function () {

        var style = {
            height: this.props.height + 'px'
        };
        return (
            <div className="container" style={style}>
                <div className="row">
                    <div className="col-xs-6">
                    {this.props.selected ? <h3>{this.props.selected.name}</h3> : ''}
                    {this.props.selected ? <input type="text" value={this.props.selected.name} onChange={this.changeSelectedComponentName} /> : ''}
                    </div>
                    <div className="col-xs-6">
                        <ComponentTree editor={this.props.editor} components={this.props.components}/>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        );
    }

});

Answer 1

Without seeing the rest of your code, this is a guess. When you create a EditorContainer, specify a unique key for the component:

<EditorContainer key="editor1"/>

When a re-rendering occurs, if the same key is seen, this will tell React don't clobber and regenerate the view, instead reuse. Then the focused item should retain focus.