Calling a method in React from Webcomponent

[japhill]

Is there a way to call method in a React Component from my web component? For instance, I render the react component as a webcomponent. After using the react component to perform tasks and generate data, I would like to access that data from my web component. After my webcomponent closes, I would like to call a function in the React Component to get data and pass it to another process.

[justinbmeyer]

Yes, we might be able to setup the proxy to return a method on a class-based react component.

[justinbmeyer]

I think this is possible

[justinbmeyer]

@christopherjbaker what does it mean to call a function on a traditional react component?

[justinbmeyer]

What do you mean by "web component closes"?

[christopherjbaker]

I'm not sure what "web component closes" would refer to. It is possible to access the ref of a component, the class instance for a class component or the imperative handle for a functional component, which has functions/data on it, but this is generally an anti-pattern in React. In normal React, you'd pass in an event handler, something like <Foo onData={(data) => console.log(data)} />, but I'm not sure if this works well with web components. We've got some upcoming work to do on this library though, and I will make sure someebody looks into this and has a concrete answer for you.