React Rails + Turbolinks not working correctly on initial page load

[edwardmp]

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Hi, I've used this gem for a while now and it's great. However, these last few months I've ran into an issue I can't really explain.

What I noticed at some point is that the React state somehow isn't loaded correctly by the components that are mounted. The odd thing is that this only happens when this page is the first page I load. So If open a new browser window, load this page, then the issue would occur. If I then navigate to another page on my site and navigate back to the problematic page everything works fine.

I managed to track this issue down to occurring since v2 of this gem. I resorted back to the last v1 version of this gem (1.11.0) and this issue doesn't display there. When I upgrade to v2.1.0 then I encounter this issue, 2.2.1 also displays the issue. I am not able to test against any earlier v2 versions since I use Rails 5.1.

I suspect this might have something to do with Turbolinks.

[BookOfGreg]

Hi @edwardmp

Sorry for taking so long to get to these issues, just categorising and organising them so I can start working down the open issues list.
Is #772 a duplicate of this?
Also does this still occur?

[BookOfGreg]

I believe this to be fixed in #868 (Pre-release if you want to test it)
@edwardmp I'll reopen if this does not fix it for you. Thanks for the report 👍