Uncaught Error: Target container is not a DOM element, react tutorial

[Boursler]

In the Meteor React tutorial after completing step 2.5, this error appears in the browser: Uncaught Error: Target container is not a DOM element.

I copy-pasted my code from the tutorial entirely, and I created the following files: imports/ui/App.js, imports/ui/Task.js.

I got the code to work by adding: import './main.html'; to main.js. If this is the proper fix, can this import statement be added to the tutorial? If not, is there a better alternative? I'm totally new to Meteor.

[dronda-t]

I got this error just now and was just about to post an issue until I saw this. Apparently every new meteor app comes with blaze so you have to run:
meteor remove blaze-html-templates
meteor add static-html

They specify it on the guide here but it really should be in the tutorial.

Will chime in to say this was a pain in my butt as well and also found both solutions then came here to create an issue.

Seems like the rest of the tutorial isn't using blaze so I removed then added static-html as well.

[Gordin]

Same here, just wasted a lot of time figuring out what is wrong with the tutorial... Just posting this to link this with other issues so someone else maybe finds this faster...

People fixing this with the html import: meteor/simple-todos-react@4459f38
Someone else having this problem (not exactly the same, but I had this same error while playing around with the tutorial and trying to fix this): #166

[oleggromov]

+1 to all said above. I just installed Meteor for the first time, dug into the guide and on the second step ran into this issue. Let's fix that please 👍 It will be very helpful for everybody!

[abernix]

Fixed by #185.