SSR: this.context is undefined

[Vanuan]

Suppose you have the following react component,
and you want to render it using getDataFromTree.

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props); // <-- context parameter is ignored
  }

  componentWillMount() {
    this.context.something; // <-- Cannot read property 'something' of undefined error
  }
}

Cannot read property 'something' of undefined error occurs.

It appears that this code:

https://github.com/apollostack/react-apollo/blob/4271f68d604e7a6f9c23c7a123a0b15573cafd0e/src/server.ts#L48

const Component = new ComponentClass(ownProps, context);

Doesn't set context if it isn't used in constructor (for some reason it does in the browser).

I didn't check React's source code, but it looks like it sets context even if it isn't used in constructor.

Here's a suggested fix:

    const Component = new ComponentClass(ownProps, context);
    try {
      Component.props = ownProps;
+      Component.context = context; // not sure about this
      Component.setState = (newState: any) => {
        Component.state = assign({}, Component.state, newState);
      };
    } catch (e) {} // tslint:disable-line

[Vanuan]

Here's a documentation about context: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/context.html